Sentences with phrase «of students performing at grade level»

While the experimental public schools showed slightly higher levels of academic growth than traditional schools overall, the number of students performing at grade level was lower than the state average.

The proportion of students performing at grade level rose to 36 percent from 16 percent in its first year, she said.

During the 2009 - 10 school year, the school was designated in North Carolina as a Priority School, with 50 - 60 percent of students performing at grade level, including more than 50 percent below grade level in reading.

Sick and twisted systems don't deserve taxpayer support, especially systems that can not get more than a third of their students performing at grade level for $ 20,000 a year.

Though we have concentrated our analysis of the NLP's impact on English performance on the percentage of students performing at grade level at Key Stage 2, it is also important to ask whether the literacy hour improved literacy for students performing at lower levels or, conversely, whether attempts to improve basic literacy might have harmed better - performing students.

That debate often overlooks the considerable progress since then: a record - high national high school graduation rate for 2014 - 2015, above 83 percent, and double the number of students performing at grade level in reading and math, compared with 20 years ago.

Schoales explained that the lower number of students performing at grade level likely was because many of the students were already performing well below grade level when the innovation experiment started.

Ms. Moskowitz and her allies like to point instead to Success» successes on standardized tests, with almost two - thirds of students performing at grade level — more than twice the rate of the public schools.

NAEP does not report the percentage of students performing at grade level.

He noted that 99.3 % of teachers received the district's highest rating in 2009 - 10, yet state standardized test scores that year showed that only 45 % of students performed at grade level in reading and 56 % in math.

During the 2009 — 10 school year, the school was designated in North Carolina as a Priority School, with 50 — 60 percent of students performing at grade level, including more than 50 percent below grade level in reading.

In 2010 — 11, after instituting changes that supported the whole child, the school became a School of Progress, with 60 — 80 percent of students performing at grade level.

Shirley didn't want to send her son Robert to Inglewood High, where fewer than 10 percent of students performed at grade level, but she didn't have the money to move to a different neighborhood or pay for a private school.