Sentences with phrase «with graduation rates»

These schools include the lowest - performing 5 percent of elementary and middle schools, the lowest 5 percent of high schools, and high schools with graduation rates below 60 percent.

In 15 states, Black students made up more than 40 percent of enrollment in schools with a graduation rate of 67 percent or less.

The four - year rate must be used when setting goals, as an indicator in state ratings, and when identifying high schools with a graduation rated below 67 percent for comprehensive support.

Several districts with graduation rates above 95 percent border those with rates below 75 percent.

Comprehensive support schools include high schools with a graduation rate lower than 67 % and the lowest performing 5 % of schools within a state.

With the graduation rate hovering at 58 percent, Driver is pragmatic.

The school previously struggled with graduation rates and there are hopes that new leadership will improve the schools in the community.

But student performance on standardized tests, along with graduation rates, does not need to be made publicly available unless a private school has 25 or more students who receive vouchers.

«Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools,» which rate as the lowest 5 % performing schools in the state and any high schools with graduation rates less than 67 %.

With graduation rates already low, administrators worry about what larger class sizes and fewer school buses will do to the community.

But here's a look at the percentage of free and reduced - price lunch eligible students in each district compared with the graduation rate.

Over the course of eight years, this multifaceted approach has shown encouraging results, with the graduation rate rising to reach almost 85 percent in 2013.

With a graduation rate of about 78 percent — much lower for African American and Hispanic students — we know that many of them do leave.

By the 2007 - 2008 school year, some 23 large and midsize schools with graduation rates below 45 percent were closed or on their way to closing.

But only high schools with a graduation rate under 60 percent for three consecutive years are considered «struggling.»

On the last point, the 2016 Building a Grad Nation report notes that alternative, charter, and virtual schools comprise only 10 percent of high schools nationwide, but they make up more than 50 percent of high schools with graduation rates at or below 67 percent.

* This article was updated with the graduation rate for Latinos at Santee Education Complex, which was 82 percent for 2016, and to clarify that graduation rate for the three schools mentioned are based on the 2015 — 16 four - year cohort graduation rate released by the California School Dashboard in the Fall 2017.

Western Massachusetts had only three districts with graduation rates above 95 percent.

Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz has signed an amendment to the county apprenticeship law, which will now require contractors on county - supported construction projects to offer apprenticeship programs with a graduation rate of at least 30 percent.

Since its inception, Kids Up Front has taught more than 350 six - week class series in 14 major cities throughout the United States and served more than 4,400 participants with a graduation rate of 90 percent.

As with graduation rates, we projected mobility rates for the phase - out cohort if their school had not been slated for closure, based on their characteristics and the prior trend at their school.

The student is always presented with the graduation rates of his nearest colleges, his state's flagship public university, other in - state selective colleges, and a small number of out - of state selective colleges.

Given the oft - studied economic impacts associated with graduation rates, e.g., lifetime earnings, unemployment, and incarceration rates, «the negative economic implications of less on - time high school completion may be far reaching and multifaceted.»

Recent figures from the 2013 - 14 school year showed Idaho ranked 41st in the nation with a graduation rate of just 77.3 percent.

Nationwide, 1 in 5 students fails to graduate high school on time, with graduation rates significantly lower for low - income, African - American, and Hispanic students.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

The state's headway with graduation rates has not been matched by similar success in measures that track students» college and career readiness, prompting questions about what it takes to earn a high school diploma.

For example, they will acknowledge that it takes years to learn academic English and, in the next breath, bluster over the «achievement gaps» of English learners with graduation rates and national reading and math assessments.

Directly south of San Francisco lays a cluster of districts with graduation rates between 90 and 95 percent.

Going to community college or a vocational program could offer more, but with graduation rates pretty low, around 25 % — to the point that the Gates Foundation is getting involved to help community colleges do better by their students — this also doesn't seem like a suitable substitute for a full high school education.

Nevada's students with disabilities also continue to be an area of concern with a graduation rate of only 29.29 %.

Under his leadership, the state's high school graduation rate rose to an all - time high of 80 percent, with a graduation rate hitting nearly 95 percent for those students in career - preparation programs.

As was the case with graduation rates and results from the Forward Exam (given the students in grades 3 - 8) also released this week, long - standing gaps between students of different racial and economic backgrounds were virtually unchanged.

With graduation rates growing steadily over the last four years for which data is available, peaking in 2013 - 14 at 70 percent, and no major surprises for the class of 2014 - 15 expected, the class of 2015 - 16 is facing a true crisis.

The suit claims Navient engaged in: Making predatory loans to students attending for - profit or non-profit colleges with graduation rates lower than 50 percent, despite clear expectations...

Four years ago, GSU had achievement gaps similar to other urban universities with low - income students, with graduation rates about 10 % lower for «at risk» students.

States would identify and support «priority» schools (the lowest performing 5 percent of Title I elementary schools and Title I secondary schools, as well as secondary schools with graduation rates under 60 percent) and «focus» schools (Title I schools with the greatest achievement gaps and secondary schools with the greatest graduation rate gaps).

Mississippi and Florida both have more districts with a graduation rate below 60 percent than districts above 90 percent.

Considering the Buffalo Public School District has struggled with graduation rates hovering near 50 percent, the school board is aiming high as it seeks additional state funding to help dramatically improve those rates.

U.S. News ranked the schools using a four step methodology that includes students standardized test scores, along with graduation rates, and participation in advanced placement courses.

(Comprehensive Support and Improvement Schools, in basic terms, will be defined as the lowest 5 % of Title I schools or high schools with graduation rates less than 67 % not already in the lowest 5 %.)

Minnesota has one of the largest gaps in achievement between black and white students, with a graduation rate for white students 15 percentage points higher than black.

Notice how there are blocks of high - performing suburban schools with graduation rates above 95 percent in all directions; they're just not directly next to Chicago.

With graduation rates at an all - time high, three million students will graduate from U.S. public high schools this spring.

The abundance of green on the map — indicating a district with a graduation rate of 75 percent or lower — isn't surprising when you consider that Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida all have statewide rates that low.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

With 75 schools and almost 40,000 students, Newark is the largest district in New Jersey, and with graduation rates hovering just about 50 percent, one of the most troubled.