Sentences with phrase «percentage of the student body»

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.

We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total enrollment, percentage of the student body that is white, average experience of teachers, and school performance, as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.

In fact, in many cases, school funding and prestige is directly married to college - readiness data and the percentage of the student body accepted into four - year institutions.

But these guidelines will also encourage schools to unjustly punish students in races that have lower rates of punishment than their percentage of the student body.

So the board this year unveiled a new measure that it described as «the best single measure of equity and excellence in AP»: the percentage of the student body or of a graduating class that earns a passing score of 3 or higher on at least one AP exam.

Figure 2: Changes in the mean percentage of student body made up by ELL students at three types of choice schools, as compared to 2014 Connecticut district average.

Therefore, if you're in an upper middle class (or higher) school, you will find that a larger percentage of the student body is gifted than you would find in a lower class school.

However, my main point was that Osgoode and Ottawa do not in fact have significantly fewer hires than the other law schools, it is only when this claim is looked at as a percentage of student bodies.

Winning schools and student organizations / leadership teams are rewarded with cash prizes based on the percentage of the student body who make the SmartDrive PROMISE.

Promoted participation on campus and increased percentage of student body with memberships from 74 % to 87 %

Not exact matches

«The data allow students to see which microbes are associated with certain body types or lifestyles and what percentage of those microbes they have,» Weber said.

A new study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine found that NFL PLAY 60 programming significantly improved both aerobic capacity and body mass index among a large percentage of the approximately 100,000 students who participated in the program between 2011 and 2015.

Under the law, schools must show not only that their overall student body is making «adequate yearly progress» on state tests, but also that a sufficient percentage of certain subgroups of students are likewise proficient.

Specifically, I separated out the effects on test - score gains of a student's race and ethnicity, as well as accounted for the influence of a student's peers, by evaluating the influence of demographic characteristics of the student body, including average income level and percentage of minority students.

In these comparisons, we take into account changes in the characteristics of the student body including the percentage of students who are Hispanic, the percent African American, and the percent eligible for the federal free lunch program, as well as changes in the school's student - teacher ratio.

Concerned about the absence of black and Latino students in the field of computer science, Margolis launched a three - year study of students» computing experiences at three high schools in Los Angeles — one with a predominately African - American student population, one with a largely Latino student body, and a third with a significant percentage of white students from wealthy families.

We also control for the percentage of the school's student body that was eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, as only these students were eligible for FTC scholarships.

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.

Historical data shows that Montgomery's white enrollment as a percentage of the entire student body — at more than 90 percent in 1971 — has dipped every year since, while the percentage of Hispanic students has been climbing since 1984.

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.

Most notably, in Georgia, Iowa, Oregon, and Rhode Island, the increases in the percentage of students of color among education majors exceeded the increases in students of color in the overall student body.

In Iowa, while the diversity of the overall student body decreased by 2 percent, the percentage of students of color majoring in education increased by 15 percent.

Similarly, in Oregon, the percentage of students of color among education majors grew 8 percent, while the change in students of color in the overall student body increased by 5 percent.

In all other states that increased the selectivity of entry into teacher preparation programs, the percentage of students of color increased among education majors as well as among the entire student body in the years examined.

What's more, in the remaining 41 states and Washington, D.C. — which did not increase their selectivity standards during the time period analyzed — five states — Arkansas, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Mississippi, and Tennessee — saw an overall decrease in the percentage of students of color among education majors, and 24 states saw less of an increase in the percentage of students of color among education majors than in their student bodies overall.

These variables include the percentage of students receiving free - and - reduced lunch, the demographic makeup of the student body of the school, and the percentage of students in the school who are English - language learners.