Nationally, more than 6.8 million students and at least 10
percent of kindergarteners and first graders are chronically absent.
Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90
percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.
By the end of the year, 96
percent of kindergarteners reached or exceeded the proficient mark on the same STEP test.
For example, 16.3
percent of kindergarteners were ELL students, compared to 8.2 percent of 6th - graders and 6.6 percent of 8th - graders.
And what about the other 91
percent of our Kindergarteners?
Not exact matches
While P.S. 130 has strong test scores, TriBeCa parents were concerned about the school's stricter rules, including a requirement that students must wear uniforms, and parents also worried their children would have trouble making friends because 70
percent of incoming
kindergarteners at P.S. 130 do not speak English as a primary language.
In general, around 80
percent of low - SES
kindergarteners and around 94
percent of high - SES
kindergarteners in these heterogeneous Florida schools are ready for kindergarten, according to the state.
This past cycle
of Newark Enrolls, the collaborative enrollment system that lets parents prioritize their choices among traditional district schools and public charters, over 50
percent of parents
of incoming
kindergarteners chose charters as their first choice.
The study points out that 87,000 elementary school children, from
kindergarteners to fifth - graders, missed more than 10
percent of the 2012 - 13 school year.
Accounts may be worth 95
percent (50
percent for incoming
kindergarteners)
of the state's per - pupil funding amount plus differentiated aid.
This year Utah is at a 4.3
percent exemption rate, putting Utahns close to falling below the national goal
of having 95 %
of all
kindergarteners vaccinated.
Furthermore, according to annual reports that renaissance schools have to submit to the state, 16
percent of KIPP
kindergarteners and 17
percent of Uncommon kindergartners were classified as needing special - education services, while Mastery's rate
of special - education classifications was 19
percent.