Sentences with phrase «average school size»

Nevertheless, between 1940 and 2000 the average school size rose five-fold.

• Differences in average school size across states can have an impact on the number of overall personnel that panels might identify.

Average school size at full enrollment is 442 students.

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Recently, researchers from Harvard Medical School estimated that workplace sleepiness and drowsy employees cost the average - sized Fortune 500 company around $ 80 million a year.

Teachers in the district's three schools are paid about $ 12,000 more than the state average, and the schools offer an array of top - notch educational opportunities, including low class size, foreign language instruction, fine arts and orchestra programs, low - cost preschool and a full - day kindergarten, before - and after - school care, and several extracurricular sports teams.

What is the average size of the elementary schools?

The average size of classes taught by one teacher in state - funded secondary schools was 20.4 in January 2011, down from 20.5 in January 2010.

The average size of classes taught by one teacher in state - funded primary schools increased slightly, while the average size of classes taught by one teacher in state - funded secondary schools decreased slightly.

Immigration has swamped schools, leaving the taxpayer needing to find places «equivalent to building 27 new average - sized secondary schools or 100 new primary schools».

The manifesto also proposed a large increase in public spending on education, which would allow for the school leaving age to be increased to 18 and reduce average class sizes to 19 pupils.

«As a result of this work, average class size across the city has decreased from 26.4 students per class in the 2015 - 16 school year to 26.1 this year,» he said.

The UFT will present the fact - finding panel with evidence that New York City public school teachers, in addition to having the largest class sizes and the neediest students, are on average the lowest paid in the region.

A preliminary report released by the Department of Education on Dec. 14 shows that average class sizes increased this school year.

The research, led by Dr Xuemei Bian, of Kent Business School, considered the impact of using average and zero - sized models in marketing campaigns for both established and fictitious new fashion brands.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

In Washington, for example, the average class size attended by students who switched to private school was 18, compared with 22 for those who remained in public school.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

They also do not differ significantly in their initial per - pupil spending, average class size, percentage of students receiving subsidized school lunches, percentage of students with limited English proficiency or disabilities, and the mobility of their student populations.

The program grants scholarship organizations the flexibility to vary the sizes of the scholarships, but the maximum average of all scholarships disbursed must be no greater than $ 2,500 for private school students and $ 625 for homeschoolers.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Data averaging pools students across grade levels at the school - year level, and / or across years at the school - grade level, increasing the number of observations and, consequently, the chance of getting to the minimum n - size.

Moreover, the figures show that the average size of a primary school in the UK has increased by 30 pupils, which, in most schools equates to an extra class.

To ensure the competition is fair for schools of all sizes, the leaderboard will be decided on the average number of minutes read per child.

Although the results varied considerably between schools, the overall achievement of students across the 28 schools represents an average effect size of 0.6, which can be seen the shift in the relative proportions in each zone of the LAF from August to November shown in Figure 1.

Walk into an elementary school classroom and even the literal design of the room is for the «average» kid: one size desk, one size chair, one size table.

Data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey put the average elementary - class size in the state at 17.9 pupils, one of the lowest averages in the nation.

Colorado loses points, though, because data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey show that the average class size in its elementary schools, 23.2 students, is among the highest in the Schools and Staffing Survey show that the average class size in its elementary schools, 23.2 students, is among the highest in the schools, 23.2 students, is among the highest in the nation.

On the plus side, the average class size for elementary school classes in Louisiana is 18.9 pupils, lower than the national average of 21.2.

Conant's idea of a large school was 400 students, and the schools Cubberley wanted to consolidate were mostly rural one - room schoolhouses with an average size of well under 100 students.

But others have attributed the Florida gains to an amendment to the Florida Constitution, adopted by the voters in 2002, which requires every school district to reduce its average class size.

In the New York City schools we studied, the average cohort size was 75 students in K — 8 schools, 100 students in K — 5 and K — 6 schools, and over 200 students in middle schools for grades 6 — 8 and 7 — 8 (see Figure 3).

We estimate that an 8th grader who attends school with 200 other 8th - grade students will score 0.04 standard deviations lower in both math and English than he would if he attended a school with 75 other 8th graders, the average cohort size for a K — 8 school.

The analysis also incorporates data from the National Center for Education Statistics on the racial / ethnic composition of each school, the percentage of students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch (an indicator of family poverty), the average number of students in each grade (a measure of school size), and the school's pupil - teacher ratio (an measure of class size) in the 2007 - 08 school year.

They increased total school enrollment and average class sizes in order to fit additional instructional resources into the budget.

Private schools are on average half the size of public schools, potentially making them more attentive to the situations of individual students.

In addition, school systems may direct students into schools with different average class sizes on the basis of their performance.

The leaderboard was based on the average number of minutes read per child to ensure the competition was fair for schools of all sizes.

This approach forced us to restrict the sample to schools in which both a 7th - grade and an 8th - grade class were actually tested and in which data on the actual class sizes and average class sizes were available for each grade.

But the South African school system under apartheid was obviously unique; in some districts, the average class size reached 80 students.

Our strategy takes advantage of the fact that data were collected on both actual and average class sizes and on students» performance and socioeconomic backgrounds for more than one grade level in each school.

Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite students compared to 37 percent nonwhite students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with more educational resources per student (student / teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).

That the average elementary school has more than tripled in size in the past 50 years?

According to data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey, the average elementary - class size in the state is 19.4 pupils, lower than the national average of 21.2 pupils.

Through the 2008 — 09 school year, administrators have been considered in compliance if their schoolwide average class sizes were under the constitutional limits.

Data from the federal 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey put the average elementary - class size at 18.6 pupils, compared with 21.2 nationally.

Average class size was reduced from 84 to 46 students in the 140 schools that received funds for a new teacher.

Among all the schools, the average gain score was not strongly related to school size, but the variance between schools was much larger for small schools.

For example, in a school with three equal - sized 4th - grade classrooms, the replacement of a teacher with a VA estimate of 0.05 standard deviations with one with a VA estimate of 0.35 standard deviations should increase average test scores among 4th - grade students by 0.1 standard deviations.

Researchers Martin West and Ludger Woessmann have pointed out that several nations that perform impressively on international assessments, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, boast average middle - school class sizes of more than 35 students per teacher.

Starting with the 2008 - 09 school year, individual districts must meet new size caps in each classroom, robbing school officials of the wiggle room they enjoyed during the phase - in period, when school systems were allowed to use districtwide and then schoolwide averages in calculating class sizes.