The phrase
"district average" refers to the average or typical value of something across a specific district or area. It is a way to understand what is considered normal or typical in that particular region.
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At the same time, students with disabilities comprise 17 percent of the charter school enrollment compared to the 27
percent district average, the report found.
The student attrition rate across our four campuses is lower than 5 percent, lower than both the state and
sending district averages.
Pilot Schools receive a lump sum per pupil funding formula based on
district average cost per pupil for all students, excluding out - of - district placements and students with extraordinary needs.
While 90 percent of the students at KIPP Raíces are from low - income families and 96 percent are Latino and more than half of all students are English learners, the school vastly
outperformed district averages in the recent statewide English and math: 74 percent of its students met or exceeded the standards in English language arts, and 79 percent met or exceeded in math, compared with 33 percent in English and 25 percent in math for LA Unified schools.
Also, during that same time period we have tripled our graduation rate, and are now at or
above district averages in all four End of Course Exam assessments (US History, English 1, Algebra 1, Biology).
Yet analysis from UW - Madison's Value - Added Research Center shows Leopold outperformed the
school district average in improving the reading test scores of black students over the previous two years.
This Excel document shows grade - by - grade score comparisons of individual charter schools to their neighborhood
district averages for Math and English Language Arts, 2009 - 10.
Staten Island charter school students received $ 4,657 less per pupil than the city's
district average per - pupil amount, according to the report.
Instead of relying on salary data reported for each individual teacher, we
calculate district average salaries for teachers in each of their first ten years of experience during the period from 1993 to 1996.
These supports, coupled with our young men's ability, intelligence, and grit, account for why 72 % of Urban Prep graduates persist in college — a rate that's 25 percentage points higher than the Black
male district average.
These schools continued to exceed the
host district averages in both subjects, emphasizing their importance to educationally struggling areas.
While they are considered «high - performing» charters, close inspection of Plato Academy student populations in Pinellas County reveal that their enrollment of African American, disabled and low socio - economic students is far below the
Pinellas district average (According to the DOE School Public Accountability Reports, 2015 - 16.)
Figure 2: Changes in the mean percentage of student body made up by ELL students at three types of choice schools, as compared to 2014
Connecticut district average.
Your school has been designated as a failing school according to federal and state policy and your discipline infractions, as well as truancy, are well
above district average.
All three school choice programs tend to have a lower percentage of children with disabilities and emerging bilingual students (ELL) when compared to their local
school district averages.
Her students are exceeding
district averages on the material that she has covered thoroughly, according to mid-year assessments.
English - language learners were overrepresented among dropouts in the class of 2011 — 16 percent, compared to the 4
percent district average — and special education students accounted for more than one in five dropouts in 2011, higher than their 11 percent share of the class overall.
But what we continue to see in DC is that white students score well above both national and urban
district averages for their race; black, Hispanic and poor children score well below national averages for their races and classes.
Although recent changes in Massachusetts's assessments make year - to - year comparisons of achievement growth in math and language arts difficult, our data clearly show that after year two, this school in turnaround status is exceeding
district averages in ELA and narrowing the gap with the district in math.
Additionally,
the district average of service scores improved to 93.5 %.
Emerson's graduation rate is also higher than
the district average.
The U.F.T. report found that in Manhattan's District 5, for example, English language learners make up 6 percent of the charter school enrollment compared to
the district average of 14 percent.
Charters in District 4, also Manhattan, had an 11 percent suspension rate, compared to
the district average of 1 percent.
Attendance for students in that program was 87.5 percent, almost 10 percent higher than
the district average, and only 3.4 percent of students in academies there dropped out of school — less than one - third the figure for students districtwide.
For youth in the high - risk group, the gain as measured by these quality indicators is roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around
the district average.
For youth in the highest risk group (top 20 %), the gain in school quality indicators is «roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around
the district average.»
In other words, these schools typically received 1 to 4 percent more than
the district average, or $ 15,000 to $ 60,000 per school of 500 students in a district where the average school expenditure is $ 3,000 per pupil.
For example, if School A receives $ 4,000 per pupil in noncategorical funds but
the district average per pupil is $ 5,000, then the ratio for School A is 0.8 (or 80 percent of the district average).
«We're giving our scores to them,» said Winstead, which means the higher - scoring YES Prep students at Northbrook count toward
the district average.
Also, children in yoga were significantly more physically fit than the school
district average, based on scores from the annual California Physical Fitness Test.
On average, the 4th - grade math and reading test scores of KIPP late entrants were 0.15 to 0.16 standard deviations above
the district average, putting them 0.19 standard deviations above the scores of students who enrolled in the normal intake grade.
Conversely, late entrants at district schools had dramatically lower average 4th - grade test scores than on - time enrollees: 0.30 and 0.32 standard deviations lower in reading and math, respectively (in both cases, 0.29 standard deviations below
the district average).
They and non-poor students significantly pull up
district averages.
In terms of academic performance, KIPP students» achievement in grade 4 (before entering KIPP) is lower than
the district average by 0.09 standard deviations in reading and by 0.08 standard deviations in math, or roughly one - quarter of a grade level in each subject.
When the Achievement Academy scores tanked, coming in below
the district average in 2006, its second year, the school's board immediately fired the principal and several teachers (who work with one - year contracts), changed textbooks as well as some systems and routines, and saw, the following year, a marked increase in test scores.
After four years in the program, student scores were «above
the district average in almost every area.»
After two years in the program, two of the three schools advanced from «well below average» to «well above
the district average» on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.