Sentences with phrase «8th grade enrollment»

Although the district's five - year graduation rates (based on 8th grade enrollment) have increased from 75 percent (for the Class of 2001) to 81 percent (for the Class of 2006, the most complete data available), the district still faces some key achievement gaps.

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The schools that agreed to participate in the study included 22 open - enrollment district schools, five oversubscribed charter schools, two exam schools to which students are admitted based on their grades and standardized test scores, and three charter schools that were not oversubscribed at the time the 8th - grade students in our study were admitted.

Five indicators have a clear bearing on education outcomes: preschool enrollment, kindergarten enrollment, 4th - grade reading, 8th - grade mathematics, and high school graduation.

Meanwhile, estimates of the effect of attending a charter high school on college enrollment are even larger using the restricted sample than with the original sample that includes schools offering both 8th and 9th grade.

When we constructed a more limited Chance - for - Success Index that included only those indicators that signal education quality — pre-school and kindergarten enrollment, 4th — and 8th - grade proficiency scores, and high school graduation rates — we learned that the rankings of states changed a good deal.

KIPP tracks its rates of high school graduation, college enrollment, and college graduation for all students who either completed 8th grade at a KIPP middle school or graduated from a KIPP high school.

Instead of reinstating the traditional remedial courses from previous years, CPS required enrollment in two periods of algebra for all first - time 9th graders testing below the national median on the math portion of the 8th - grade Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS).

Using data that track students from 8th grade through college enrollment, we analyze the effect of this innovative policy by comparing the outcomes for students just above and just below the double - dose threshold.

Cupertino Union Superintendent Wendy Gudalewicz said she too expected enrollment in Algebra I in 8th grade to decline with the Common Core.

While the state is not currently collecting data on course enrollment, Ze'ev Wurman, who is referred to in this article, directed us after the article's publication to the results of a survey of the representative number of 8th grade students in California who took the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, the test given every two years to a cross-section of 137,000 8th - grade students across the United States.

Meridian PCS, which first opened in the 1999 - 2000 school year, has a total enrollment of roughly 700 students from PK3 to 8th grade.

The state doesn't currently require districts to report course enrollment by grade but according to a representative sample of students who took the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, the percentage 8th graders taking Algebra I has fallen from 54 in the 2012 - 13 school year to 28 percent in 2014 - 15.

Due to increased enrollment at our K - 8 campuses, we are converting Brooke Roslindale, Brooke Mattapan, and Brooke East Boston to K - 7 campuses and launching the Brooke 8th Grade Academy, solely devoted to 8th grade students and families.

This study examines the relationship between 8th and 9th grade early warning indicators as predictors of graduation outcomes, as well as the relationship between 9th grade indicators and college enrollment outcomes.

The school has been at full enrollment since its inception, currently with 330 children in grades Pre K through 8th grade.

In Boston, KIPP: MA currently serves 216 students in grades K - 2, and 287 students in 5th - 8th grade and will grow to serve 648 students in grades K - 8 at full enrollment in 2017.

Akili Academy is an open enrollment charter school that serves scholars in PreK - 8th grade in New Orleans.

EAGLE College Preparatory Schools are free open enrollment public charter schools for scholars in kindergarten through 8th grade.

Some Chicago parents have also opted their students out of the ISAT in some grades — but since CPS uses 3rd, 6th and 8th grade ISAT scores to make student promotion decisions and 7th grade ISAT scores as a gateway to selective enrollment high schools, the opt out choice here can be hazardous.