Sentences with phrase «high number of students enrolled»

The prediction of an 80 percent graduation rate made by the district was not official, but more anecdotal and based on the high number of students enrolled in credit recovery programs to complete their A through G courses.

CAN is committed to serving the high schools with the highest need (e.g., high number of students enrolled in the Free and Reduced Lunch Program) and the fewest resources (e.g., lack of college access support such as a high counselor to student ratio).

Not exact matches

Across sub-Saharan Africa, for example, female students currently constitute just 38 % of the numbers enrolled in higher education.

In 2002, latest data and the first since 9/11, the number of foreign students enrolled in U.S. science and engineering graduate programs increased by 8 % to a new, all - time high.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Washington — A substantial number of high - school students apparently managed to sneak through a «legal loophole» during the first four months of this year and enrolled in college early in order to preserve their eligibility for a student - aid program of the Social Security Administration.

A better denominator would be the number of students who had enrolled in high school four years ago, when most students will not have reached the age at which they legally can stop attending school.

The school characteristics include whether it is in an urban area, grade level (e.g., high school), the number of students enrolled, student - teacher ratio, the percentage of students who are eligible for the free or reduced - price lunch program, the percentage of minority students, and measures of student achievement in reading and math.

A 2009 report by Parthenon Group, a private consulting firm commissioned by the NYC Department of Education, showed that the city's «failing schools» had enrolled a disproportionate number of «high need» students.

A number of students drop out before they reach high school graduation, he said, but educators work to keep them enrolled; the school's 2015 graduation rate was nearly 83 percent.

And a report from the Southern Regional Education Board, which supports increasing the number of middle students taking Algebra I, found that among students in the lowest quartile on achievement tests, those enrolled in higher - level mathematics had a slightly higher failure rate than those enrolled in lower - level mathematics (Cooney & Bottoms, 2009, p. 2).»

And as the student population continues to grow more racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse, the teacher workforce remains overwhelmingly white.3 Research shows, however, that students of color benefit from having teachers with whom they share the same race or ethnicity, 4 and white students benefit from having nonwhite teachers as well.5 In order to increase the number of teacher candidates of color enrolling in and graduating from teacher preparation programs, several states are developing initiatives to intentionally recruit high - achieving people of color into the teaching profession.

Apart from our academic results, we are also proud to share that our stability rate (the number of students who stay enrolled in a particular school until the end of a school year) has consistently been higher than the state average and that our chronic absenteeism is well below state averages.

«I was talking to another parent that I worked with at that time regarding high schools and I was telling her my concerns with (public schools) and Dante was always in a school that had smaller classes and not a large number of students enrolled,» explained Hamilton.

Each of the 11 high schools selected to receive a Reach Higher System Impact Grant was a second year participant of MCAN's Reach Higher grant program, an initiative aimed at supporting college - going culture inside high schools to increase the number of high school students ready for and enrolling in college.

In addition to more than eight out of 10 high school students graduating on time, the number of students enrolled in dropout factories has dropped 47 percent over the last decade and minority students have led the way in increasing graduation rates and leaving dropout factories all while quality standards have grown increasingly strict.

Despite that data constraint, many schools can still be identified as a high - or low - rate suspension school based on the number of African - American students enrolled at the school.

With good data, the calculation of the rate is simple; divide the number of students who graduate by the number of students who enrolled in high school four years earlier.

And a study of a privately - financed voucher program in New York City found that black students, especially, enrolled in college in higher numbers when they attended a small, private high school.

Charter schools have a lower cost per pupil than traditional schools: Based on an analysis of relevant school costs and the number of enrolled high school students, the data shows the per pupil per pupil costs for Alliance charter high school students to be $ 10,649 per year, compared to $ 15,372 per year for students at traditional public high schools within LAUSD, that is, we find a per pupil cost differential of 44 % in favor of Alliance charter schools.

A magnet school is defined as an elementary, middle, or high school that offers, to all students enrolled in that particular school, a special curriculum capable of attracting substantial numbers of students of different social, economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.

Minority students in New Zealand, including indigenous Maori, are concentrated in the nation's poorest schools, while fewer than 1 percent of students of European descent are enrolled in schools with the highest number of low - income students.

We believed we could create a school that produces on - time high school graduates AND students who experienced and earned a serious number of college credits, indeed earn their Associate Degree, while enrolled with us.

«The goal of [our] movement is not simply to increase the number of schools and students enrolled, but, rather, the number of high - quality public school options for families who need them most,» Rees said.

Complicating that finding, though, was the fact that students with limited English and students enrolled in bilingual programs did seem to benefit from programs with a higher number of quality benchmarks.

Charter school leaders, however, say they are aggressively recruiting students with the lowest skill sets and note they have had success in other areas, such as enrolling high numbers of black and Latino students.

«Los Angeles has the highest overall number of students enrolled in charter schools, with more than 156,000.

The state longitudinal dropout rate is calculated by determining the total number of students enrolled in Texas public schools in seventh grade and subtracting the total number of those same students receiving a high school diploma five years later, excluding students who will not graduate but are still enrolled in the regular school program that leads to acquiring a high school diploma (such as students who were retained or do not have sufficient credits), divided by the number of pupils in the original seventh grade group and multiplying by 100 to determine the percentage.

For charters with more students, the benchmark threshold should be set no higher than 50 % above the total number of students enrolled in the charter.

In Florida, Bailey found, participation in dual enrollment was positively associated with students» success in earning a high school diploma, enrolling in college, earning higher college grades, and earning greater numbers of college credits, and these relationships were particularly strong for low - income students and males.

Still, in the 2015 - 16 school year, 51 % of CPS students (students enrolled in Chicago public schools) opted out of their assigned neighborhood schools; among high school students specifically, this number jumps to 73 % (Hing and Richards, 2016).

There are a vast number of students who get enrolled in many top class Canadian universities like York University, University of Waterloo and Queen's University to pursue their higher degree course.

With summer fast approaching, large numbers of high school and college students are searching for summer jobs, beginning an internship or enrolling in summer school.

However, a report that was released last week showed that due to the high number of borrowers enrolling in these plans, income - based repayment plans could soon cause the government to begin losing money on their student loan portfolio.

But with the school continuing to focus on its reputation for high - quality instruction, the number of enrolled students has held steady.

Their numbers are growing and today nearly 4 % of all students enrolled in higher - level education in the USA are international students.