Sentences with phrase «percent of elementary school»

Reading disabilities affect up to 8 percent of elementary school children.

Eighty - six percent of elementary school principals believe that uniforms are more cost effective compared to purchasing regular clothing.

While only 33 percent of elementary school libraries currently offer ebooks, 50 percent of middle - school libraries, and 63 percent of high school libraries do.

Statistics show that 61 percent of elementary school students suspended were black children in the 4th or 5th grade.

In DC's ESSA state plan, Pre-K CLASS will be a sub-component of school ratings, and will count for roughly 3 percent of each elementary school's rating.

The so - called group of «state education leaders» also voted to define the «passing mark» on the Common Core tests so that 38 percent to 44 percent of the elementary school children will «meet the proficiency mark» in English / language arts, and only 32 percent to 39 percent will do so in math.

In addition, in LA Unified, only 7 percent of the elementary school budget is at the discretion of the school site leadership team.

They found evidence of serious cheating in 3 to 5 percent of elementary school classrooms.

At Hamilton Elementary / Middle in Northeast Baltimore, 87 percent of elementary school students qualify for subsidized meals.

Twenty - five percent would be measures of school environment, including chronic absenteeism — which accounts for just 5.8 percent of an elementary school's score and 7.5 percent of a middle and high school's score — and re-enrollment rate, or the percentage of enrolled students who choose to return to the school each year.

A minimum of 20 percent of each elementary school week should be directed toward ancillary classes, including art, music, physical education and library or technology.

A 2014 study by the National Science Foundation found that only 39 percent of elementary school teachers feel very well prepared to teach science.

Not surprisingly, responses also differed by grade level, with perceptions of safety decreasing as grade level increased: 88 percent of elementary school parents, 70 percent of middle school parents, and 63 percent of parents of high school students felt that their child's school was safe.

Forty - five percent of elementary school parents are more interested in face - to - face meetings, compared to 30 percent of high school parents.

On Kentucky's previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of «proficiency» or better in both reading and math.

We know their «positive recognition of good behavior» methods resulted inthe highest number of suspensions of any school in the state, with 32.5 percent of elementary school students and 49.4 percent of middle school students having at least one in - school suspension, out - of - school suspension, or expulsion.

The resulting curriculum, originally known as «EngageNY,» spread rapidly nationwide, and a 2015 RAND survey found that an astonishing 44 percent of elementary school teachers in Common Core states reported using EngageNY at least once a week, more than any other math program, and 13 percent said they used Eureka Math.

And 17 percent of high school teachers (or 1 out of 6) fell into these low - ranking categories, compared to only 5 percent of elementary school teachers.

Other metropolitan areas have less than 1 percent of their elementary school populations enrolled in such schools.

About 50 percent of high school students have access to salad bars at schools, 39 percent of middle school kids and 31 percent of elementary school children.

In a 2010 report to the USDA [PDF], Mathematica predicted that adopting a full range of improvements to make meals «healthier» would result in 5 percent of elementary school children dropping out of the program, and even more — 12 percent — at the secondary school level.

In fact, only 4 percent of elementary schools, 8 percent of middle schools, and 2 percent of high schools offer daily physical education, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A survey of union chapter leaders (perhaps not the most objective of sources) found, the UFT reports, that 74 percent of elementary schools have seen class size increase this year.

But in America, only 3 percent of elementary schools and 4 percent of secondary schools even offer Chinese.

An article in Science magazine last fall predicted that nearly 100 percent of all elementary schools in California would be failing schools by 2014.

The study focused on the 16 percent to 17 percent of elementary schools nationwide that the researchers deemed to be «high poverty» schools.

Yet in 2002 the school outperformed 92 percent of all elementary schools in Virginia in reading and 86 percent of all elementary schools in math.

If that were restricted to ten percent of elementary schools, we'd be in the neighborhood of 6,000 schools.

Taking over the then lowest - performing district in the state, Smith turned around Ogden schools, moving all of Ogden's elementary schools out of the bottom ten percent of elementary schools in the state.

Given the CLRN survey results that say that 80 percent of elementary schools engaged in online learning are using a Rotation model, this appears to be proving true.

About 60 percent of all elementary schools in the United States use the CD - ROM, she said.

She included her students» scores on district literacy tests and the University of Oregon's DIBELS tests, short for Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills, given three times a year at 20 percent of elementary schools in the nation.

In 2015, 63 percent of elementary schools earned an A or B and 56 percent of high schools earned an A or B.

The school was ranked among the bottom 20 percent of elementary schools in the state, and the bottom 30 percent for schools with similar demographics.

In 2006, only 3.8 percent of elementary schools, 7.9 percent of middle schools, and 2.1 percent of high schools offered students daily physical education for the whole school year.

The Pennsylvania Department of Education will annually publish a list of the bottom 15 percent of elementary schools and the bottom 15 percent of secondary schools, based on combined math and reading PSSA scores, and identify them as low - achieving schools.

This has caused class sizes to soar, tripling the number of districts that have applied for and received waivers, representing nearly 30 percent of all elementary schools in the state.

Not exact matches

Men make up 3 percent of preschool and kindergarten teachers, 19 percent of elementary and middle school teachers, and 41 percent of high school teachers.

Approximately 45 percent of the respondents in both groups attended a parochial elementary school.»

Under the voluntary guidelines, 100 percent juice, low - fat milk and bottled water are allowed in elementary and middle schools, with the addition of diet beverages and calorie - capped sports drinks, flavored waters and teas in high schools.

These school districts, which serve more than 10 percent of the nation's school children, charge an average of $ 1.80 for an elementary school meal and $ 2.14 for a high school meal.

Stated another way, the average revenue for a paid lunch in these largest school districts is only about 77 percent of the federal reimbursement provided for free lunches in elementary schools and 90 percent of the federal reimbursement in high schools.

Roughly 45 percent of pupils at this northwest suburban elementary school hail from low - income families and are eligible for a free lunch.

As Janet Poppendieck noted in the Washington Post last week, many children who currently do not participate in the federal program get no lunch at all (4 percent of elementary students and 8 percent of high school students).

Census Bureau figures show that parents care for 76 percent of America's 29 million elementary and junior high children when they arrive home from school.

Eighty percent of Chicago's elementary and high schools have at least one fast food restaurant within a half mile, and 18 schools in New York's East Harlem are located within 500 feet of a fast food restaurant.

Some did not eat lunch (4 percent of elementary students and 8 percent of high school students).

By contrast, last school year, the district's food service staff fed more than half of Milton high school students, 70 percent of elementary and middle school students and around 100 staff members regularly.

In Valley View «s elementary schools, about 35 percent of the students bring lunch.

The program, which began in three schools last year, now operates in 11 elementary schools around the city and in Cicero, where the population of students eligible for free or reduced lunches is 85 percent or higher.