Sentences with phrase «percent of grade school»

Two percent of grade school children suffer from depression in the U.S., and parents often feel powerless to help their struggling child.

In Tiverton, a whopping 86 percent of grade school kids reported they had been bullied, and in Narragansett, the statistic was 83 percent.

Between the fall of 2011 and the summer of 2012, 73 percent of the grades the school awarded were A's or A-minuses.

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Over the past three decades, the number of homeschooled children has grown by at least 7 percent a year» the number may now exceed the number attending charter schools» and between 6 and 12 percent of all students are educated at home at some point between kindergarten and twelfth grade.

More than 85 percent of children eventually outgrow their milk allergy, some as early as grade school, and others into their teens and 20s.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

Established in 1956, Clark County School District is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th School District is the fifth largest school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th school district in the country, educating almost 75 percent of all students in Nevada with more than 320,000 students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Overall, 27 percent of kids in the study were overweight or obese when they started school and that ratio increased to 38 percent by eighth grade.

Fifty - nine percent of residents in Nassau, Suffolk and other suburban counties gave schools in their communities grades of either A or B, compared with 37 percent of New York City residents.

We also released 100 percent of the high school test items and have repeatedly requested additional funding from the legislature necessary to release virtually all 3rd - 8th grade test items.

Meanwhile, SUNY - authorized charter schools get 70 percent, 80 percent and even 90 percent of students up to grade level.»

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

Meanwhile, SUNY authorized charter schools get 70, 80, and even 90 percent of students up to grade level.»

Thirty - five percent of Millennium's ninth grade this year comes from Brooklyn, and the need for selective schools is much greater there, Speiller said.

Only 17 percent of local elementary and middle school students met the grade level standard for ELA (English Language Arts), while just 22 percent met the standard in math.

Fourteen percent of the high school students transferred to other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress Rschool students transferred to other schools, with more than half ending up at another school with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress Rschool with a grade of C or lower on its School Progress RSchool Progress Report.

He says he finds it incredible that more than 95 percent of teachers were rated as performing properly, while two thirds of New York's school children in grades 3 through 8 have been deemed inadequate in math and reading standards.

The reference was to the Department of Education's plan to reserve 25 percent of seats at 17 middle schools for kids who score below grade level on state exams.

And according to a September audit by the city comptroller's office, the DOE used more than 25 percent of money targeted to early grades class size reduction to cover its own portion of the budgets for 245 schools, rather than to enhance their budgets, as intended.

Kentucky also brings up the rear among youth in grades 9 - 12 who use tobacco; according to 2011 CDC data, about 24 - percent of high school students smoke cigarettes.

At schools with a student poverty rate of below 10 percent, by contrast, the research team found that regular informal exchange among parents helps improve students» grade point average and makes them more likely to graduate.

In the main study group, exposure to anesthesia for surgery before the age of 4 was associated with an average difference of 0.41 percent lower school grades and 0.97 percent lower IQ test scores.

More than one - fourth of the 2,500 largest U.S. school districts have at least one full grade of students with their own laptops — a figure expected to rise 50 percent in three years.

For example, in the Athens Area School District, student gains topped 87 percent, and of the eighty - nine Quakertown students who failed tenth - grade math, 72 percent are now getting A's, B's, or C's in their junior year.

Just 5 percent give private schools a «D» or an «F,» as compared to 16 percent giving one of those low grades to local public schools and 23 percent giving those grades to the nation's schools.

Whereas the upper grades at the school had just one classroom apiece, all of which were 100 percent black, the program for three - year - olds had four classrooms that were racially and socioeconomically mixed.

High school students engaged in PBL in biology, chemistry, and earth science classes outscored their peers on 44 percent of the items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress science test during their twelfth - grade year (Schneider, Krajcik, Marx, & Soloway, 2002).

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

Emma attends a school where more than 95 percent of the students achieve at grade level, including Emma.

In October, while ESSA conferees were still negotiating, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law a new school rating system under which only 30 percent of a school or district's grade will be based on student achievement.

According to results from the 2010 EdNext - PEPG Survey released in this issue («Meeting of the Minds»), only 18 percent think the schools deserve an «A» or a «B,» while 25 percent assign them either a «D» or an «F.» These are the worst grades the U. S. public has given its schools since it was first asked to grade them back in 1981.

Some key reforms live on, including the federal requirement that states test their students in reading and math from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, disaggregate the results, and report the information to the public; and the requirement that states intervene in the bottom five percent of their schools.

One hundred percent of its 10th grade alumni passed the 2004 and 2005 MCAS in English and math, and among BIFF's 2006 high school graduates who applied to college, a whopping 92 percent were accepted in their first - choice college — and this from a population of kids who hadn't much chance of graduating high school, let alone considering something beyond.

Several studies (download) have found that more high school students fail ninth grade than any other grade; in low - income high schools, 40 percent of all dropouts (download) leave after ninth grade.

At KIPP Ascend, where many fifth - graders start one or two grades behind in reading and math, after four years at the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

Of the 813 teachers who responded to the poll, 64 percent gave public schools a grade of A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those markOf the 813 teachers who responded to the poll, 64 percent gave public schools a grade of A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those markof A or B. Only 42 percent of the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those markof the general public, an3swering a similar question in a Gallup poll last spring, gave schools those marks.

In one Philadelphia district, for instance, nearly 30 percent of school - to - career students have a grade point average of 3.0 and higher, compared with 19.8 percent of the general student population.

My school's staff was cracking under intense scrutiny, because fewer than 30 percent of our students were on grade level.

Because most students enter charter schools before the 3rd grade when state - mandated testing begins, only 36 percent of applicants in our study have prior test scores on record and this group is not representative of all applicants.

In 2001, the California Board of Education set standards at each grade level for what students should know and be able to do in music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplines.

According to Usdin, the schools have seen the «most dramatic gains in a school system in a short amount of time,» with 56 percent of students performing on grade level compared with 35 percent before Katrina.

For example, the report tells us that 70 percent of 8th - grade students at K12 - operated schools met proficiency standards in reading, as compared to 77 percent in all public schools in the same states.

In the same year, only 19 percent of K12 schools rated by state education agencies (7 out of 36) received satisfactory grades.

To prevent that from happening, some schools have set a grading scale of 50 to 100 percent.

A school will have its A-F grade decrease by one letter if 95 percent of students don't take the state English / language arts or math test

That year, at least 25 percent of all tested students in a high school were required to pass the 10th - grade exit exam in each subject in order for the school to receive an Acceptable rating.

For graduation rates, 93 percent of all students must graduate for a district or school to earn an A grade, and for subgroup graduation rates to improve by half the gap between their current graduation rates and 100 percent by 2025 - 26.

Based on preliminary results from the spring 2000 state test, 88 percent of the school's first 8th grade class scored proficient or above in language arts (compared with 47 percent citywide), and 66 percent scored proficient or above in math (versus 21 percent citywide).

These 1,367 students represent 43 percent of all 8th - grade students attending public schools in Boston and 64 percent of the students in participating schools.

In schools that had a chance to achieve a Recognized rating, low - scoring students who were not designated as eligible for special education in 8th grade were 2.4 percentage points more likely to be newly designated as such in 10th grade, an increase of more than 100 percent relative to the 2 percent designation rate in other schools.