Do
SES test score gaps differ depending on whether the school is comparatively affluent or comparatively disadvantaged?
We observe that there is virtually no relationship between the relative affluence of the overall student body of the school and
the SES test score gap in that school: schools serving primarily high - SES students and those serving primarily low - SES students have the same average SES test score gaps (around 0.8 standard deviations) in both third and fifth grades.
Among each of the ten largest districts in Florida, the observed range between the 10th and 90th percentile of
the SES test score gap is larger than the observed difference between the school district with the largest SES gap and the school district with the smallest SES gap (among the ten largest school districts in Florida, that is).
Furthermore, while in some cases,
the SES test score gap is less than 0.3 standard deviations, in other cases the gap is well above one standard deviation.
Not exact matches
Variation in
SES gaps in
test scores and
test score growth in the ten largest Florida school districts
(We note that we've also investigated whether school - level
SES is related to the
SES gap in kindergarten readiness rates, and, as with
test scores, there is no relationship between the
SES of the overall student body of a school and the
SES gap in kindergarten readiness.)
In Figure 3, we relate the average
SES level of the school to the
test score gap in third or fifth grade between students in the top and bottom
SES quartile.
School - level associations between average
SES of the school and the
gap in
test scores between top and bottom
SES quartile students
How well do these
SES gaps in kindergarten readiness predict
SES gaps in
test scores in third or fifth grades?