Sentences with phrase «percent of its student body»

In 1996, says Klawe, female students made up 20 percent of the student body.

Hispanic students make up about 20 percent of the student body, up from five percent.

The Catholic Education Service (CES) has been criticised by Muslim and secular leaders for choosing Judaism instead of Islam, given that the latter is the second largest religion in the UK after Christianity, and that Muslim children can form up to 90 percent of the student body in some Catholic schools in Britain.

One Catholic university, which had for years professed that it «does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, handicap, color, (or) religion» and «welcomes applications without distinction on the basis of race or religious beliefs,» discovered that Catholics had thereby declined from 70 percent to 59 percent of its student body in only ten years.

It has no outdoor athletic fields or facilities on its campus, despite the fact that 65 percent of its student body participates in sports and competes at a highly competitive level.

The report offers a start contrast to the typical Chapel Hill student body: On average, approximately 4 percent of the student body are student - athletes and approximately 0.6 percent are football players.

Over 60 percent of the student body attended the game.

While the school is a Catholic school, it is separate from the Archdiocese and is governed like any other independent private school so our kids will make their sacraments at Sacred Heart but have many classmates from outside their own religious tradition (around 30 percent of the student body is not Catholic).

Under CEP, schools or school districts where 40 percent of the student body directly qualifies for free meals (via food stamps or other nutrition assistance or welfare programs) may offer those meals free to all students.

WHEREAS, during the 2013 — 14 school year, Success Academy suspended 11 percent of its student body while district schools suspended just 1 percent, according to a report by the Albert Shanker Institute, at a moment when citywide suspensions are declining, according to the Times; and

About 60 percent of the student body will benefit while going to and from school, on field trips and to sporting events.

Last fall, minority students made up around 75 percent of the student body.

The program lasts three weeks and serves about 40 percent of the student body.

English - language learners make up 17 percent of the student body, and 87 percent of kids are on the free - lunch program.

At any school site, 95 percent of office referrals are produced by 5 percent of the student body!

In high school, the same 5 percent of the student body produce 95 percent of the office referrals for eight straight semesters!

Academic achievement rolls have jumped from 75 students to 375 students (75 percent of the student body) since incentives were introduced, Ingram reports.

Suspensions are down from 13 percent of the student body to 5 percent.

One of the schools that I work with, United for Success Academy (UFSA), in Oakland, CA, has launched a concerted effort in the last year to address the needs of their ELs who comprise some 90 percent of the student body.

The higher the threshold — say, requiring a subgroup to represent at least 15 percent of the student body, as opposed to 5 or 10 percent — the lower the failure rate will be for schools with small percentages of disadvantaged minority students.

In order to be numerically significant, a group must either represent at least 15 percent of the student body and have more than 30 students or have more than 100 students regardless of what percentage they are.

Until this year, the rating system in Texas specified separate targets for racial subgroups that accounted for more than 10 percent of the student body (and more than 30 students).

About 21 percent of the student body, or 45 of 212 students, did not make the goal on the DRA.

Eighty percent of the student body receives funding.

Latino students now comprise 54 percent of the student body, and the Latino diversity gap between teachers and students has grown by 5 percentage points during that period.

Those districts in which high - needs students comprise at least 55 percent of the student body will get more money for a portion of those students.

Minority and disadvantaged students in both schools ranged from zero to10 percent and from 6 to13 percent of the student body, respectively.

Ninety percent of the student body supported the change.

This study is a comparative case study of ten elementary, middle, and high schools with strong arts programs and significant numbers of economically disadvantaged students (at least 50 percent of the student body qualifying for the federal free and reduced - price lunch program).

Furthermore, 40 percent of the nation's more than 1,700 school districts are hypersegregated, meaning that most low - income students attend schools where 75 percent of the student body is also low - income.

Black and white students each make up around 15 percent of the student body.

The intervention both schools used is inclusive school reform: At River View and Summer Heights, all students — including the approximately 23 percent of the student body at both schools formally identified as disabled — now have full access to the general education curriculum.

At district - run schools, just over 0.05 percent of the student body was expelled last year.

She said DOJ treats private schools that may only have 10 percent of its student body attending using a voucher as schools that are subject to DOJ jurisdiction under Title II of the ADA, which covers access to government institutions.

Do you think about 59 percent of your student body feels safe at school, or do you think your students might feel more or less positively than that broad statistic?

Under the trigger law, a vote by 50 - percent of the student body's parents can force low - performing schools to change the administration or staff, or revamp themselves into a publicly funded charter with more teaching flexibility.

According to a 2012 study, despite all the choices theoretically available to them, 100 percent of black students in the area attend hyper - segregated schools, where they make up at least 90 percent of the student body.

In her first year as principal at Harvard Elementary in 2012 - 13, Aisha McCarthy was confronted with a school failing to meet No Child Left Behind standards, more than 96 percent of the student body coming from low - income households and a shocking 11 percent of students currently homeless.

That translates to about 15 percent of the student body leaving a school that was put on probation.

In the decade since Katrina, New Orleans» teaching force has dropped from 71 percent black to 49 percent black, according to Tulane University's Education Research Alliance — in a city where black children are 85 percent of the student body.

While that is laudable, the methodology of the list is somewhat questionable and also explains why more schools from LA Unified — which has over 80 percent of the student body living at or below the poverty level — may not have made the «Beating the Odds» list.

For the 2013 - 14 school year, charter enrollment in LA Unified jumped 15 percent, giving the district a total of 139,174 charter students, which totals 21 percent of its student body.

Manor High School, where minorities make up 88 percent of the student body and 81 percent are from low - income families, has also seen some improvement, though just 87.2 percent of the seniors graduated from the school in 2011.

And attending a school in which blacks and Hispanics make up more than 75 percent of the student body lowers achievement of black, Hispanic, and Asian students but does not affect white students (in some of the analyzed years it actually had a small positive influence on math test scores for whites).

JPS is a majority - black district, with African American students making up over 96 percent of the student body.

Only 12 percent of Lincoln students are considered low - income (i.e. they qualify for free or reduced - price lunches) versus 96 percent of the student body at Manierre Elementary.

About 28 percent of the student body receives special education services.

Twenty - nine schools would also qualify for a «poverty concentration» weight — an extra $ 200 per student if 80 percent of the student body comes from low - income families.

Friendship's Collegiate Academy expelled 56 students, or 5 percent of its student body.

While 78 percent of Cambridge Public School teachers are white, just around 40 percent of the student body is.