Sentences with phrase «percentage of high school students»

The preschool enrollment figure is one of the education indicators, along with percentage of fourth graders not proficient in reading, percentage of eighth graders not proficient in math, and percentage of high school students not graduating...

In schools that had more instructional technology and teacher training, the average increase in the percentage of high school students who took and passed the state Regents (college preparatory) exam in math was 7.5; the average increase in the percentage of those who took and passed the Regents English exam was 8.8.

This study gathered external information that provides estimates of the percentage of high school students graduating college - and career - ready as well as the percentage of students on track for readiness in earlier grades.

The department highlighted Vermont's «inclusion of physical fitness in its accountability system» and «tracking the percentage of high school students who go on to college, the workforce, military, or trade school 16 months...

College enrollment in the first fall after high school graduation: Percentage of high school students who enrolled in a two - or four - year postsecondary institution in the fall semester immediately following graduation.

College enrollment in the first two years after high school graduation: Percentage of high school students who enrolled in a two - or four - year postsecondary institution in the first two years following graduation.

College enrollment in the first year after high school graduation: Percentage of high school students who enrolled in a two - or four - year postsecondary institution in the academic year immediately following graduation.

The percentage of high school students who meet the state standards has jumped by 44 percent for English and 45 percent for math.

Unfortunately, over the past 20 years, there has been a significant decline in the percentage of high school students who find school to be meaningful and interesting and in the percentage who view school learning as important to their future lives.

And since 1990, the percentage of high school students completing a statistics course grew from 1 percent to 11 percent.

The researchers found that the percentage of high school students who were enrolled in a STEM program or had earned a STEM degree 5 years after graduation dipped only slightly between 1972 and 2000, from 9.6 % to 8.3 %.

The most recent statistics from the National Athletic Training Association suggest that almost 4 out of 10 U.S. high schools still do not have access to an athletic trainer (although this statistic may be somewhat misleading, as the percentage of high school students with AT coverage is higher, perhaps as high as 70 %, due to the fact that larger high schools in more densely populated states are much more likely to have one or mor athletic trainers on staff), and the likelihood that trained personnel will be present during games or practices at the youth level is low).

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The result: Stanford tends to attract a very high percentage of prospective students who want to do their own thing and, once in Silicon Valley, the school serves up enough opportunities to push the odds in their favor.

Today the city schools have the highest percentage of ESL students in Virginia.

An article about salary and bonus data at top business schools highlights Tuck as the school with the highest percentage of students receiving signing bonuses among those ranked in the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report.

In North America and Europe, a large percentage of the people who read my site are High School and College students.

In a recent study, WalletHub examined 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 12 key metrics, including the percentage of adults and high school students who are obese and the percentage of people who are physically inactive.

Learn how the Community Eligible Option (CEO) works to provide universal free meals in schools with high percentages of low - income students, while reducing administrative requirements and increasing participation.

Having my superintendent and my board understanding the importance of breakfast, and promoting it, and making sure it was being implemented in my schools by each principal has really made a difference; I'm reaching a higher percentage of students than I was before.

If the number of kids who are eligible for free meals is high enough — and if a high percentage of the student body meets the criteria for other social services — that school may be eligible for free universal breakfast and lunch for all students.

For high school credit courses, the percentage of CCSD students achieving Developing to Distinguished scores was: 88 % for 9th Grade Literature and Composition (78 % Georgia), 86 % for Algebra (70 % Georgia), 88 % for American Literature and Composition (76 % for Georgia), 87 % for Analytic Geometry (70 % Georgia), 81 % for Biology (68 % Georgia), 79 % for Physical Science (66 % Georgia), 88 % for U.S. History (77 % Georgia) and 87 % for Economics (81 %).

The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom worked in conjunction with the Ohio Education Association, Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators, School Nutrition Association of Ohio, and Children's Hunger Alliance to identify schools that had a high percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals and wanted to increase their daily participation in the school breakfast prSchool Administrators, School Nutrition Association of Ohio, and Children's Hunger Alliance to identify schools that had a high percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals and wanted to increase their daily participation in the school breakfast prSchool Nutrition Association of Ohio, and Children's Hunger Alliance to identify schools that had a high percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced - price meals and wanted to increase their daily participation in the school breakfast prschool breakfast program.

According to the 2012 YRBS survey results, the percentage of D.C. high school students who are obese significantly decreased from 17 % in 2007 to 15 % in 2012.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today is calling on New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to stop intimidating New York parents and school districts with threats of pulling funding from schools with high percentages of students who opt out of grades 3 - 8 Common Core standardized tests — in essence, telling them to stop trying to «kill the messenger» for their introduction of a flawed system.

Farina declined to speak with reporters Monday but during her appearance before the Assembly committee she spoke of the city's efforts to care for homeless students, including putting libraries in some shelters and food pantries and laundry services in schools with high percentages of homeless.

A record number of NYC high - school students took and passed at least - one college advanced - placement test last spring — although the percentage of those passing fell slightly from 2016, according to the Department of Education.

And while the CDC reported that the percentage of middle and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of time.

School districts with high percentages of minority students have the highest number of ineffective teachers.

The community rallied around the school, holding several protests and arguing that the school, which has a high percentage of English Language Learner (ELL) students, was being unfairly judged.

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Titone, a member of the Assembly Education Committee, said the legal fight is needlessly hampering the development of the Staten Island charter school, which serves a high percentage of special education students.

An increasing percentage of GM's new hires are selected from its Student Programs, such as the College Co-Op, High School Intern, and College Intern Programs.

The research group of Computational Intelligence Group (CIG) from the School of Computing at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with a veterinary student from Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and the Department of Ethology from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest have carried out a research on canine behavior showing that gender, age, context and individual recognition can be identified with a high percentage of success through statistical and computational methods of pattern recognition applied to their barking.

The researchers say that changing computer science stereotypes to make more students feel welcome in high school classrooms would help recruit more girls to the field, which has one of the lowest percentages of women among STEM fields.

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

While states under ESSA need to identify for intervention only the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, high schools with graduation rates under 67 percent, and some unspecified percentage of schools in which at - risk subgroups are underperforming, the National Governors Association reports that «40 percent of all students and 61 percent of students who begin in community colleges enroll in a remedial education course at a cost to states of $ 1 billion a year.»

Lynch says he's proud of the fact that the schools he's worked in — which have tended to serve working - class students — have had good records and that «a high percentage of the students got jobs; some of them have done quite well from an academic point of view.»

In Denver, in 2012 13, the percentage of special - education kindergarten students was 1.8 points higher in district schools than in charters.

No other public or charter high school in the state with similar percentages of low - income and ESL students even approached these rates.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

The survey sought to identify issues and successful practices in «inclusive» STEM schools — schools that serve students from groups historically under - represented in STEM fields and with a higher percentage of students who qualify for a free or reduced - price lunch (which is linked to family income)-- as opposed to «selective» STEM schools, which recruit students who have higher levels of prior achievement.

A high percentage of F&M College Prep participants apply to the school, thus creating a pipeline of highly qualified, diverse students.

Achievement in reading and math; growth in reading and math; four - and five - year graduation rates plus percentage of students still enrolled in high school; English - language proficiency

For example, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act allocates additional funding to school districts with a high percentage of low - income students, who are more likely to have poor educational outcomes for reasons unrelated to school quality.

Specifically, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent in all 12 school - age years increases the probability of high school graduation by 7 percentage points for all students, by roughly 10 percentage points for low - income children, and by 2.5 percentage points for nonpoor children.

The measures used in the NEPC report — whether schools make AYP, state accountability system ratings, the percentage of students that score proficient on state tests, and high - school graduation rates — are at best rough proxies for the quality of education provided by any school.

It serves students in Boston's neighborhood schools, which have traditionally had a high percentage of low - income and at - risk students.

She notes that supporting teacher professional learning, a funding system more tightly targeted to high needs schools, and policies requiring all schools to take a percentage of disadvantaged students would be a good place improve the system.

Despite serving a substantially greater proportion of students from low - income families and minorities than district schools, a higher percentage of CMU schools (86 percent) made AYP in 2010 - 11 than did public schools statewide (79 percent).