Sentences with phrase «district attendance rate»

Quantitative yearly data over a three - year period (2007 - 2010) of implementation includes a 40 % dropout decrease from 87 to 52 students, a district attendance rate of 97.26 %, a decrease in district discipline referrals from 4,671 to 1,997, and a 35 % decrease in out - of - school suspensions / expulsions.

At Twin Rivers Unified, district attendance rates «haven't changed much,» McGuire says.

Not exact matches

The district has received high rankings for it graduation and college attendance rate.

However, Cash said the district continues struggling with poor attendance rates, which he says are the worst he's ever seen.

The region boasts a superior public education system — low student / teacher ratios of 12:1, high school attendance rates of 95 % (5 % absentee rate) and 88 % of the Capital District graduates go on to college.

Its dropout rate fell to 2.1 percent while its attendance rate climbed to 95 percent — averages higher than the district and even the entire state.

Since the mid-1990s, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has required all districts to submit data that include demographic information, attendance rates, and behavioral outcomes, yearly test scores in math and reading for grades 3 through 8, and subject - specific tests for higher grades.

Both student and teacher attendance is higher than at other local schools, with the student attendance rate surpassing that of every other middle school in the district (and significantly better than the citywide average).

The school districts also record attendance rates and grade - specific enrollment for each school and year.

The system uses such statistics as state assessment scores, attendance rates, and dropout figures to rank both buildings and districts on a four - level scale.

Our outcome measures include Stanford Achievement Test scores and attendance rates, both of which are drawn from administrative data provided by the district.

74, the undersecretary of education, had been chancellor of the Foothill - De Anza Community College District and is an expert in two - year colleges, a focus of Obama's goal to increase college attendance and graduation rates.

The Chester Upland district has seen a decline in truancy rates during the past few years — average attendance is now about 80 %.

The district has a high attendance rate of 96 %, with the majority of students who are absent being out for excused illness.

A review establishes that the higher suspension rates for black students in the district were primarily due to the harsher attendance rules at the schools with majority black enrollment.

These subgroup ratings weigh heavily in the overall performance rating for a school or district because the rating given by the state is based on the lowest performance on any single criterion (TAAS, dropout rate, attendance rate) for any subpopulation.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

The district has a 97 percent attendance rate, and fewer than 1 percent of high school students drop out, a much lower rate than in surrounding districts with similar demographics.

Typically, districts judge their schools» success by state test scores, attendance and graduation rates, reflecting their state's chosen accountability metrics.

The schools pizza party patrol has motivated improved attendance in a school with the districts highest mobility rate.

Do you have a school in your district that is beating the odds, recording higher attendance rates than schools with similar student populations?

Adapting tactics that have helped drive more people to the polls, or persuade homeowners to use less electricity, schools are now trying to boost student attendance with «nudge» letters that compare students» attendance rates with averages for their school and district.

Districts would have to collect, submit and publish data on a variety of indicators of success such as graduation and dropout rates, expulsions and suspensions, attendance, and surveys of student and community perceptions of their schools.

A report issued by the Independent Financial Review Panel in November 2015 recommended that the district work to improve its chronic absence rate not only to improve academic outcomes for students, but because the district's average daily attendance rate is the biggest factor in district revenues.

District school records show that charters also have better attendance and graduation rates than the regular public schools and that their teachers are more likely to fit the city's definition of «highly qualified,» meaning that they have expertise in what they are teaching.

The superintendent said she's aware of the challenges faced in urban districts like Rochester: poor attendance, low graduation rates, and students who can't afford a school lunch, for starters.

In under - resourced and struggling school districts across the country, too many students continue to fall below national benchmarks on reading and math and on school attendance, high school graduation and college admission rates.

In all districts, leaders were attentive to state test results and other required accountability measures (e.g., graduation rates, attendance)-- for individual schools and for the district in relation to state proficiency standards and AYP targets.

Superintendents acknowledge that federal and state standards and accountability systems have created a situation in which district and school personnel can not ignore evidence about students who are struggling or failing to meet mandated standards for academic performance, as reflected in test results and other indicators of student success (e.g., attendance, graduation rates).

The agreement proposes to evaluate a teacher's effect on students» learning in part with an unusual mix of individual and school - wide data from such sources as state standardized tests, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of high school graduation, attendance and suspensions.

This increase narrowed the gap between attendance rate at Manual and the district wide average almost threefold bringing Manual High much closer to being at par with other schools in the district.

District officials and the school board have come to realize that encouraging more parent centers on school campuses leads to more community engagement, higher attendance and eventually better test scores and higher graduation rates.

Typically, districts judge their schools» success by state test scores, attendance, and graduation rates, reflecting their states» chosen accountability metrics.

At Nottingham Middle School in Oxford Area School District in Pennsylvania, 2010 attendance rate was 96.1 %, well above both the district and the state aDistrict in Pennsylvania, 2010 attendance rate was 96.1 %, well above both the district and the state adistrict and the state averages.

Instead, the two sides agreed to evaluate teachers with such data as raw state test scores, district assessments, high school exit exams and rates of attendance, graduation, suspensions and course completion.

All three schools have high attendance, low suspensions, exceed the district four - year graduation rate, and send high percentages of their graduates on to four - year colleges.

The yearslong districtwide scheme denied an untold number of students the right to a proper education by fraudulently boosted the district's test scores, attendance and graduation rates to meet federal accountability standards.

Compton Unified School District improved its daily attendance rate by employing new strategies including improving communication between school and home and monitoring truancy and attendance in real - time.

In the 2013 - 14 school year, the district had traveling trophies that went to the elementary and secondary schools with the best monthly attendance rates.

Recognizing the need to address the elevated rates of chronic absence among its Native American students, the district has also begun meeting with community supporters, the Tribal Judge and Attendance Works to examine how they might partner to improve aAttendance Works to examine how they might partner to improve attendanceattendance.

The program was created in 2006 when he Legislature reduced property tax rates by one - third, and guaranteed that school districts would have the ability to maintain at least the same level of per - student funding for weighted average daily attendance during the 2005 - 06 school year.

Some studies show positive effects on attendance and outcomes in smaller districts, although a 2010 Georgia study found students had improved passing rates on state - administered exams in larger districts.

Gurnee - based Woodland District 50 and Mundelein's Fremont District 79 filed the lawsuit following a 2014 decision by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) to change how they calculate average daily attendance, causing the tuition rates that determine how much money goes to Prairie Crossing Charter School to rise.

The Los Angeles pact proposes to do that using a unique mix of individual and schoolwide testing data — including state standardized test scores, high school exit exams and district assessments, along with rates of attendance, graduation and suspensions.

• Only 75 percent of LAUSD teachers have a strong attendance rate (defined as attending work at least 96 percent of the time), leading the district to spend $ 15 million it can ill afford to lose paying for substitute teachers.

Under the law, districts and schools must meet benchmarks in graduation rates, attendance, test participation, and math and reading test scores.

WAMU and NPR Ed reviewed hundreds of pages of Ballou's attendance records, class rosters and emails after a district employee shared the private documents.of students despite high rates of unexcused absences.

In 2016, average attendance at district schools climbed back up to 95 and 96 percent, except at Barrington High School where the attendance rate was 93.6 percent, according to the district.

When Clovis Unified School District analyzed attendance for Thanksgiving week and found the absence rate was as high as 10 percent, it was clear meaningful learning wasn't taking place that week.

The district has implemented several key initiatives to successfully reduce their chronic absence rates including their innovative use of Teachers on Special Assignment (TOSA) as dedicated attendance liaisons.