Sentences with phrase «among white students»

Among white students in mostly white schools, that rate is 33 percent.

Just 51 percent of black students graduate from high school; the graduation rate among white students is 72 percent (see Figure 1).

On average, black students in the sample had 39 children's books in their home, compared with an average of 93 books among white students.

Second, and more importantly, the growing racial gap at the secondary level is entirely caused by higher rates of growth among white students.

Although African Americans with GPAs as high as 3.5 continue to have more friends than those with lower grades, the rate of increase is no longer as great as among white students.

The four states with the next highest levels of reading proficiency among white students are New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and Colorado.

According to DPI data, suspensions among black students nearly quadrupled the number among white students in 2014 - 2015, despite the fact that black students make up less than 30 percent of total enrollment.

Alonso said the improvement among white students somewhat masks the great gains made by minorities.

(Frankly, I'm not sure how to explain the abysmally low PARCC math scores: even among white students, only 52 % met «college and career ready» expectations.)

And because of low performance among white students in urban districts, a focus on closing school - level achievement gaps was clearly insufficient: closing the racial achievement gap at Central High School in Providence in 2007 would have entailed raising the proficiency rate of African American students from 7 percent to where white students were, at 9 percent.

While statewide graduation rates for black and Latino students improved by 3 percent this year, their rates are still around 68 percent, compared with an 88 percent graduation rate among white students in the state.

Maryland saw a significant drop in performance among white students, which also contributed greatly to its declines, NAEP officials said.

Now say the same group of students is tested again in 8th grade, where the average score of black students turns out to be 90, versus an average of 100 among white students.

Among white students, the results indicate that being assigned to a white teacher had similar effects regardless of school type.

Among white students, the 4 - year graduation rate stayed at about 91 percent over the past two years, according to Department of Public Instruction data.

Sadly, nearly one million students each year are consigned to this fate, with dropout rates among black and Hispanic students higher than among white students.