In this case, 70 % of Urban students, 73 % of Suburban students, and 65 % of
Rural students enrolled in college.
Further, they also found that
rural students enrolled in advanced courses were less likely to pass Advanced Placement exams than their non-rural peers.
Not exact matches
School districts that already had higher fractions of
students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or
rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their
students enrolled in charters.
But it must not become code for only helping black and Hispanic
students, or only helping
students enrolled in urban, rather than
rural, schools.
Teaching English for the three years on the Laguna Pueblo reservation and in Aztec, New Mexico, she became distinctly aware of the unique problems faced by
rural schools and
enrolled in the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program's Instructional Leadership Strand seeking ways she could be of greater help to her
students.
Alexandria, Va., (January 16, 2018)-- Nearly 20 percent of the country's
students are
enrolled in
rural schools, yet are not provided the same focus in national policy or research as
students in urban and suburban school districts.
A report on
rural schools looking at data from the 2013 - 14 school year found that more than 20 percent of all public school
students in the United States are
enrolled in
rural school districts, which is over 9.7 million
students.
In 16 states, one - third or more of all public school
students are
enrolled in
rural school districts.
A
rural school, New Mexico Highlands University has more than 2,000
enrolled students.
A study released this month by the American Association of School Administrators on equity for
rural schools found that, due to the sheer distance between schools,
rural students don't truly have a choice when it comes to
enrolling in a school that will meet their needs.
Research shows
rural students are less likely to attend selective colleges, have greater gaps between high school graduation and entering college, and are less likely to be continuously
enrolled in college.
The school board in Carroll County, a
rural area on North Carolina's border near Mt. Airy, voted to end its affiliation with K12 in mid-April, in part because the oversight was burdensome for a small school district that only had five
students in Carroll County
enrolled in the program.
Nearly 20 percent of the country's
students are
enrolled in
rural schools, yet are not provided the same focus in national policy or research as
students in urban and suburban school districts.
Smaller numbers of homeless
students were
enrolled in
rural (149,000) and town (139,000) districts.