Sentences with phrase «larger than elementary schools»

School size is correlated with grade levels — middle and high schools are typically larger than elementary schools.

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[21] Similarly, the School Nutrition Association estimated that the cost of providing a school lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schSchool Nutrition Association estimated that the cost of providing a school lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schschool lunch was $ 2.92 for the 2008 - 2009 school year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schschool year, which is considerably higher than the average per - meal revenue for paid meals the following year in the 20 largest districts ($ 2.07 in elementary schools and $ 2.41 in high schools).

[37] Mahopac is the largest school district in Putnam County, educating more than 5,000 students in four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school (1600 students).

LOWER MANHATTAN — Downtown's elementary schools have once again been flooded with more kindergarten applications than available seats — with an even larger overflow than last year.

LOWER MANHATTAN — With far more applications than seats, most of Downtown's popular elementary schools have placed an even larger number of youngsters on the dreaded kindergarten wait - list than last year.

Babies who attend large - group child - care centers before they are 2 1/2 years of age do get more respiratory and ear infections than those cared for at home, but they are less likely to come down with these ailments once they start elementary school, according to the study.

In an effort to improve the achievement levels of their most disadvantaged students, the Dade County schools have launched a large new program this year that will place more than 17,000 elementary - school children in classes of 15 or fewer.

The largest declines were among elementary schools in 12 urban dioceses (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Boston, Newark, Detroit, and Miami), which together have lost almost 20 percent of their students (more than 136,000) in the last five years.

«[It] requires learning a large number of distinct procedures, probably more than for any other mathematical operation taught in elementary school.»

They also tend to be larger and have many more students per grade than elementary school (see «The Middle School Mess,» featschool (see «The Middle School Mess,» featSchool Mess,» features).

Consistent with this hypothesis, we find that the effect of competition is more than twice as large for elementary and middle schools as it is for high schools (see Figure 2).

A study of elementary and middle - school funding in the 2007 08 school year found that the 18 smallest elementary and middle schools received 28 percent more dollars per student than the six largest: $ 10,900 compared to $ 7,800.

Being the principal of a large secondary school, for example, requires quite different capacities than serving the same role in a small elementary school.

A British study suggests that students at the upper elementary school level don't learn more in small classes than they do in large ones.

Three school characteristics stood out as associated with higher rates: middle schools (as opposed to elementary or K - 8 schools), large schools (especially if enrollment exceeds 1,300 students), and schools with a higher percentage of African - American enrollment (that pattern is seen in schools with greater than 16 percent African - American enrollment).

For an analysis of how district administrators differentiate support for improvement to schools, for example, we focused on medium - to large - sized districts serving multiple schools at all levels, rather than small districts with only an elementary, middle, and high school.

In elementary and middle / junior high schools, the average population of students was larger in the HSS than in the LSS (538 vs. 378 in elementary schools; 763 vs. 549 in middle schools).

School level also is a significant moderator of district effects on school - leader efficacy, with districts having larger effects on elementary than secondary school leSchool level also is a significant moderator of district effects on school - leader efficacy, with districts having larger effects on elementary than secondary school leschool - leader efficacy, with districts having larger effects on elementary than secondary school leschool leaders.

In their special strategies study, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that reform programs that focused on the primary grades had larger achievement gains in reading than schools that spread their efforts out across the elementary grades or into the secondary grades.

Heads of schools, historically referred to as headmasters when the positions were held primarily by men, at junior schools (middle schools and elementary schools) tend to make significantly less than their secondary school counterparts, and boarding school heads tend to make the most due to the large amount of responsibility the school has in providing an appropropriate homelife for students from around the world.

While the elementary schools surrounding Isthmus Montessori have a large population of English - language learners, this charter school would have 44 percent fewer bilingual resource teachers and specialists per student than those schools.

A large - scale study of more than 50 elementary school classrooms found that decorations, such as these in a 2014 kindergarten room, are a frequent source of distraction and off - task student behavior.

This could be because middle and high school boundary neighborhoods are much larger and less different from each other than elementary school neighborhoods, which are smaller and more differentiated.

If early - elementary - age students had more opportunities to experience success and parity with peers (particularly in areas other than math and reading, where large performance gaps between students at this age are common), they would be less likely to give up on school learning.

Late last year, Stanford released research which showed that elementary Chicago Public School students were achieving faster learning gains than almost any other large public school district in the coSchool students were achieving faster learning gains than almost any other large public school district in the coschool district in the country.

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

In a three - year pilot study at 20 elementary schools in New York City with a diverse population of children, students using CKLA had significantly larger gains than students in similar schools.

Let's look at a sample composed of elementary schools that are larger than the median charter elementary enrollment, and where the foster youth population is higher than 2.26 % (The reason I chose those numbers is in footnotes) ¹.

In contrast, large, comprehensive public secondary schools draw students from multiple elementary schools and thus tend to be internally more heterogeneous than are elementary schools.

According to a Center for American Progress report examining the largest school districts in the country, schools are closed for an average of 29 days each school year — not including summer recess — which is 13 days longer than the average private sector worker has in paid leave.58 Not only do days off increase the cost of child care, but the short length of the school day also decreases economic productivity when parents have to take time off from work or when parents with elementary school - age children opt out of full - time employment in order to accommodate their children's schedules.59

Another major study on Los Angeles charter schools from the University of California, Berkeley, found that between 2007 and 2011, charter elementary and middle schools were producing larger achievement gains than district schools.

For example, in response to the arrival of the Boomer generation, which is proportionately larger than the rest of the population, society invested heavily in: maternity wards as they arrived; elementary schools as they reached school age; colleges and universities as they approached adulthood; and new retirement models as Boomers approach 60 years of age.

School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia • PA 2003 — 2011 Certified School Nurse Accountable as a full time nurse in the largest elementary school in the state with more than 1300 stuSchool District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia • PA 2003 — 2011 Certified School Nurse Accountable as a full time nurse in the largest elementary school in the state with more than 1300 stuSchool Nurse Accountable as a full time nurse in the largest elementary school in the state with more than 1300 stuschool in the state with more than 1300 students.