Sentences with phrase «of students performing below grade level»

The school historically demonstrated over 60 % of students performing below grade level in reading at the end of third grade, and special education rates above state and national average.

Relying on data that showed L.A.'s progress would still leave about 40 percent of students performing below grade level by 2014, Villaraigosa pushed at first for complete control over the district.

Based on the most recent data, large proportions of students perform below grade level in reading and math in both elementary and secondary grades.

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Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

To enhance student - level differentiation, we supplied all sixth and ninth graders with a math tutor in a two - on - one setting and provided an extra dose of reading or math instruction to students in other grades who had previously performed below grade level.

The PSSA shows only whether a student is performing at one of four levels (Below Basic, Basic, Proficient, Advanced) with respect to that grade level.

Dawn DiGiovanni, who teaches fourth - grade math and science, estimates that about 50 percent of her students are below grade level, 20 percent perform above average, and everyone else is somewhere in between.

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.

Despite the importance of reading comprehension, far too many students continue to perform below grade - level expectations on standardized assessments of reading.

More specifically, a student who performed far above grade level expectations at the fall screening but showed no growth across the course of the school year has different needs than a student whose fall score was below benchmark and had no or little growth over the course of the school year.

Yet, too many Washington students perform below grade level; nearly a quarter of them fail to graduate.

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.

I teach six classes a day; one of essentials, student performance two to five years below grade level, four of regular, performance slightly below to slightly above grade level, and one of advanced, students performing at least one year above grade level.

In the fall of 2015, 72 percent of students at I.S. 126 Albert Shanker School for Visual and Performing Arts were performing below grPerforming Arts were performing below grperforming below grade level.

The year before Hardy took over, about 50 percent of its students were performing below grade level, behavioral infractions had risen, and the state had dropped Sylvanie Williams's performance grade from a C to a D.

Withrow said large portions of the student population at the Tennessee school were «set up for failure» by coming into the virtual school already performing below grade levels.

The school clearly moves the needle: while 80 percent of students who enter are performing below grade level, 65 percent leave at or above it, according to a school official.

According to Blueprint Louisiana, a nonprofit group based in Baton Rouge that prioritizes «student success over traditional practices,» Louisiana was ranked 48th of 50 states for K - 12 student achievement in 2011, with one - third of the state's students performing below grade level and 44 % of schools classified as failing.

In light of these circumstances, and the challenges faced by public schools in ensuring these students are mastering grade - level TEKS, and the evidence as noted in the Katrina study that many of these students may well perform below state standards in their tested areas as compared to their non-affected peers, it is logical that students who are identified by these specific PEIMS codes should be excluded in the 2017 - 2018 accountability subset for public schools.

Thirty - one percent of fourth - grade and 24 percent of eighth - grade students perform at the below basic level in reading.

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.

Yet, according to the 2009 NAEP, nearly two - thirds of fourth grade students are performing only at or below basic reading levels.

In grade 12, a full 88 percent of Hispanic students perform below proficiency in math, with over half performing at the lowest achievement level.

How can two teachers share responsibility for teaching a diverse group of students whose abilities to understand math concepts and perform math calculations vary from well below to above grade level?

Prior to the dietary changes, 120,000 of the students were performing two or more grade levels below average.

It speaks volumes about the impact our schools are having on the lives of their students when you consider that most charter students come to the charter sector performing below grade level in several key measures,» remarked Broy.

How come some of my «good students» received As or Bs as course grades when they performed at C level or below on assessments?

With three grade levels, multiple subjects, and students performing far below grade level, teachers felt overwhelmed by the number of areas that needed improvement.