Sentences with phrase «of average pupils»

Learners are given descriptions of average pupils using data from SportAtSchool and they are asked to compare their class's data to these averages.

Not exact matches

Your first impulse would probably be to look at a couple of factors: the average test scores of the schools» current pupils and their socioeconomic background.

The proportions of pupils eligible for free school meals and with special educational needs are both higher than the national average.

Nearly 750 pupils signed up for free or reduced - price meals, the district reported, and now the district serves an average of only two alternate lunches a day at each of the system's 87 schools.

«I'm guaranteeing for the next three years - and I've agreed this with the chancellor of the exchequer - that funding per - pupil will keep rising for every school - in fact, it will rise on average by more than 2 %, that's more than cost pressures.»

On average, 82 per cent of pupils achieve five or more GCSEs at grade A * to C, including English and mathematics.

In 2008/9 academies saw a five percentage point increase in the proportion of pupils achieving at least five GCSEs at A * to C including English and mathematics - double the national average.

He resigned in 2017 along with several others at the trust before the publication of a critical Ofsted report reporting unclear governance at the trust where «trustees did not hold directors and leaders to account with sufficient rigour», and below - average pupil attendance.

New York schools already spend more per pupil than any state in the nation, at an average of $ 19,818, almost double the national average of $ 10,700.

Pupils whose first language is English achieved the most passes at grades A * - C in their GCSEs, with those of Nigerian background achieving close to the national average, whereas pupils whose first language was Somali, French or Portuguese performed worst in educPupils whose first language is English achieved the most passes at grades A * - C in their GCSEs, with those of Nigerian background achieving close to the national average, whereas pupils whose first language was Somali, French or Portuguese performed worst in educpupils whose first language was Somali, French or Portuguese performed worst in education.

New York spent $ 21,206 per pupil compared to a national average of $ 11,392 in school year 2014 - 2015.38 Better targeting spending to the highest needs districts would contain costs while ensuring that all students have access to a sound basic education.39 The State wastes $ 1.2 billion annually on property tax rebates and allocates $ 4 billion annually on economic development spending with a sparse record of results.40 Curtailing spending in these areas would reduce pressure to increase taxes and lessen the tax differential with other states.

Public elementary and secondary school spending in New York reached an all - time high of $ 20,600 per - pupil in 2013 - 14 school year, topping all states and exceeding the $ 11,009 per - pupil national average by 87 percent, according to new U.S. Census Bureau data.

The average point score measure will reflect pupils» achievement across a wide range of eight subjects.

President Akufo - Addo noted that if the programme had not taken off, over one million youth who qualify for senior high school would still have been at home because of their inability to afford senior high school education in five years time, explaining that for the past five years an average of 100,000 qualified pupils could not enter into senior high schools for financial problems.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

«Governor Cuomo, when he's speaking about education funding, he always talks about the average spending per pupil in New York State being the highest of anywhere in the country.

New York State currently spends more per pupil than any state in the nation, at an average of $ 19,818, almost double the national average of $ 10,700.

About a 30 % increase in average expenditure per pupil (over four years, between age seven and 11) is expected to produce an increase in achievement of a level equivalent to 25 - 30 points on the PISA scale.

That had shown a number of benefits — including that pupils involved were on average two months ahead of their peers academically.

The UK continues to perform at about the OECD average in international rankings of pupil achievement, with an unchanged performance over the last decade.

Now a primary school with fewer than 60 per cent of pupils achieving the basic standard of level 4 in reading, writing and maths (that increases to 65 per cent next year), and fewer pupils than average making the expected levels of progress between KS1 and KS2 will be taken over.

«New York today spends more per pupil than any other state in the nation — $ 19,552 — nearly double the national average of $ 10,608 per pupil.

In education, data enabling parents to see how effective their school is at teaching high, average and low attaining pupils across a range of subjects will be published from next January.

More to the point, says the Empire Center, «School spending in New York [state] was driven primarily by instructional salaries and benefits — which, at $ 14,769 per pupil, were 114 percent above the national average of $ 6,903, the census data show.»

Rosemary Serra, president of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women, said New York invested more money per pupil in education than most states, but still had a below average graduation rate.

Here's the latest news, courtesy of the US Census Bureau and the Empire Center for Public Policy's E.J. McMahon: Per - pupil public - school spending in 2014 - 15 exceeded the national average by a breathtaking 86 percent.

A statistical comparison of facial traits of European Americans and African Americans — forehead - chin distance, ear height, nose width and distance between pupils, for example — with other body traits — forearm length, height at waist, etc. — showed that facial traits are, on average, more varied than the others.

In 18 of them, the increase in the size of the pupils was pronounced — an average change of 23 per cent after half an hour — compared with a «minimal» 5 per cent in a group of 32 healthy elderly people.

Despite this, the Selective report shows that the average proportion of disadvantaged pupils in the best schools is up to 9.4 per cent from 7.6 per cent in 2013.

In light of this, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) found that low - attaining pupils who were put into ability sets tended to fall behind by one or two months a year on average.

Bangladeshi, Indian, black African and Pakistani pupils from poorer homes were also found to perform «well above» the national average, while white working class boys achieve the lowest grades at GCSE of any main ethnic group.

It estimates that expenditures average $ 6,680 per pupil, hardly more than 50 percent of the average actual expenditure level of $ 12,637 per pupil in the districts where respondents live.

Earlier research from Oxford University found that the attainment of EAL pupils varies widely and that average attainment figures mask a huge range of outcomes for different groups of EAL pupils.

Even though the UK fares better in the bracket of lower secondary education (aged 10 - 13) its 14.3 pupils per teacher is only lower than the Netherlands (16.0) and France (15.1) in the EU, with the average being 12.6.

106 English primary schools with higher than average numbers of disadvantaged pupils took part in the trial, which was delivered to 8,600 pupils by the charity Magic Breakfast.

In fact, the average payment structure for U.S. sponsors falls in the range of 3 percent to 5 percent of a school's per - pupil allotment.

If you attend Incline High School in the upscale town of Incline Village, for instance, you in effect «receive» more than $ 13,248 in public funds — that is, the per - pupil expenditure in that community, which is far above the state average of $ 8,274 per pupil.

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 provisional school results will include performance measures such as the percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSEs or equivalents at A * to C, the percentage of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate (EBacc), and the Attainment 8 scores, showing average achievement across eight subjects, including English and maths, for those schools that have opted into the new accountability system a year early.

Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the Sutton Trust and of the Education Endowment Foundation, said: «The fact that Indian, Bangladeshi and Chinese pupils from poor homes are performing better than the national average is in itself a great achievement.

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).

In order to keep up in maths, over a third of pupil will need to get high grades and an average above grade 5.

We find that when a district increases per - pupil school spending by $ 100 due to reforms, spending on instruction increases by about $ 70, spending on support services increases by roughly $ 40, spending on capital increases by about $ 10, while there are reductions in other kinds of school spending, on average.

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.

Indeed, in the face of recent findings by Education Policy institute, which found that 20 of the largest multi-academy trusts (MATs)-- running more than 300 schools — fall «significantly below» the national average for improving pupils» attainment, the importance of self - assessment not just within each school but right across the trust, is perhaps more important than ever before; and goes to the heart of addressing the issues raised in the all - party parliamentary group's (APPG) 21 questions http://www.nga.org.uk/News/NGA-News/Pre-2016/21Q.aspx

For the indicator capturing the percent of students in districts where per - pupil expenditures reach or exceed the U.S. average, the corrected national value is 39.8 percent, with revised values lower than previously reported for 36 states.

We also eliminated 18 answers of more than $ 50,000 for per - pupil spending and 17 answers of more than $ 100,000 for average teacher salaries.

The impact of these Healthy Schools activities means that: pupils are more engaged in P.E; literacy has improved; pupils have better relationships with one another and are more physically active at break and lunch times; attendance is in line with national averages; there are very low incidences of bad behaviour recorded after lunch time; all pupils that attended swing high club showed improved handwriting as a result of this intervention; 55 fruit pots are sold each day to pupils in KS2; and 40 pupils attend breakfast club.

The half of the sample who saw the prompt claimed, on average, that their districts spent $ 5,262, about $ 1,000 more than the others, but still only 54 percent of the actual per - pupil spending levels in their districts.

For the districts in which our sample members live, per - pupil spending in 2004 — 05 ranged from $ 5,644 to $ 24,939, with an average of $ 10,377.