Sentences with phrase «score per pupil»

The results are only recorded at the school level and an average score per pupil is calculated and published.

There are tabs for arithmetic and spellings scores (average scores per pupil and totals for the class are calculated), as well as end of year assessments.

When ranked on the average point score - the average number of points scored per pupil in the tests - these 213 schools came out top.

Not exact matches

In 2009 Riverside Primary School in Rotherhithe, South East London, scored a 100 per cent pass rate in Sats tests in English, maths and science after pupils were taught breathing exercises by a yoga teacher before the exams.

The ASCL survey found that despite Ofsted saying inspections do not require schools to predicts attainment of their pupils or progress score, 62 per cent of respondents stated that they were asked to predict pupil attainment.

According to the models comparing high - scoring F schools with low - scoring D schools, to achieve the same 5 - point gain in math that the threat of vouchers accomplished, Florida schools would need to increase per - pupil spending by $ 3,484 at previously failing schools.

To produce the same gain in writing scores, per - pupil spending would have to be increased by $ 2,805, more than a 50 percent increase.

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).

States also receive lower scores for restrictions on the scholarship sizes below the lower of either $ 10,000 or parity with public school spending per pupil.

The trust identified this group at «missing talent» as the analysis revealed that 15 per cent of highly able pupils who score in the top 10 per cent during primary education fail to achieve in the top 25 per cent at GCSE.

A negative score means that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more state and local funding per pupil than students in more affluent areas do.

Utah is one of only 10 states that have negative wealth - neutrality scores, meaning that, on average, students in property - poor districts actually receive more funding per pupil than students living in wealthy areas.

Th test is supposed to measure children's understanding of 85 grapheme - phoneme correspondences (GPCs), but BERA's research suggests that pupils can score extremely highly, in some cases up to 92.5 per cent, with only relatively simple phonic knowledge.

By converting the Timss scores to the scores used in the key stage 2 maths tests, known as Sats, the report estimates that to match the performance of pupils in the top five countries — Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan — 90 per cent of children in England would need to reach the expected standard in the English Sats maths test, with an average scaled score of 107.

Research by the Sutton Trust in 2014 showed that pupils eligible for free school meals who scored in the top 10 per cent nationally at the end of primary school were significantly less likely to be entered for the EBacc, compared to their wealthier peers who achieved the same level aged 11.

This article has been revised to correct information regarding per - pupil expenditures, as well as grades and scores in summative results and school finance.

Using this relationship, increasing per - pupil spending by 10 percent is associated with about 0.12 standard deviations higher test scores (this relationship is statistically significant at the 1 percent level).

Indeed, adjusted for inflation, the average amount spent annually per pupil at the nation's district schools has approximately tripled since 1970 and yet the scores of 17 - year - olds on the Long - Term Trend Assessments of the National Assessment of Educational Progress have remained flat.

By adopting a blended, multi-age model, the school cut per - pupil costs in half and rather dramatically raised tests scores within 3 years.

And then there's the big picture: When you get to 17 - year - olds — our schools» «final products» — NAEP scores have been utterly stagnant for decades despite per - pupil expenditures roughly tripling and Washington getting ever - more involved.

Applying the approach we pioneered in an earlier Leaders & Laggards report several years back, we calculated a state's ROI by dividing a composite measure of NAEP achievement scores by per - pupil expenditure (adjusted for the cost of living).

It went on to highlight the report's finding that «[d] ifferences in state scores for students with similar families can be explained, in part, by per - pupil expenditures and how these funds are allocated.»

Mr. Owens proposes school report cards for every school in state listing student - achievement scores, per - pupil funding, teacher qualifications, and dropout rates.

Stripp highlighted that to achieve a grade four in the new higher tier maths GCSE paper this year, pupils only needed to score around 20 per cent of the total marks.

While it is certainly true that adequate spending is necessary to sustain the public school system, it is not true that per pupil spending is a major determinative factor in improving test scores.

Not only do we pay for our rent using the per - pupil funding we receive from the state, but the consequences of continued low test scores have a completely different meaning for charter schools.

Official figures show the school, which joined the trust four years ago, had pupil progress scores in the bottom nine per cent of schools for reading and maths last year.

($ 175 - $ 300 per pupil), number of «LCFF eligible» students, [1] current School Performance Framework tier ($ 70 - $ 215 per pupil), and on «Z score,» which the district uses to measure challenging «environmental factors» such as neighborhood crime ($ 25K — $ 100K per school).

Overall scores have made very little positive shift, while per - pupil spending has gone up by almost 75 % over the last 35 years.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Larry K. Shumway had figures from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) on Utah student performance in math, science and language arts compared with states with similar scores and then cross-referenced with class size and per - pupil funding.

The five A * - C benchmark for Chinese pupils at local authority maintained (LA) schools fell 7.9 per cent, while the similar scores of Chinese pupils in sponsored academies dipped just 0.1 per cent.

Pupils scoring in the bottom 10 per cent of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) are nearly nine years behind in science — and just over eight years behind in maths — than those in the top 10 per cent, according to data released this morning.

In the latest by CNBC, Utah comes in 46th in education based upon four factors: test scores, per - pupil funding, class size and concentration of institutions of higher education.

The academy has a Progress 8 score of +0.32, and 75 per cent of pupils gained a good pass or better in English and maths, compared with 58.7 per cent nationally.

Of the 8,173 teachers asked by the NEU about what causes excessive work, 74 per cent said pressure to improve pupil test scores and exam results is a main factor, while 52 per cent blame changes to the curriculum and testing.

When we included pupils with varying non-verbal IQs, the prevalence estimate increased 50 per cent (to 7.58 rather than 4.8 per cent, which only includes those with NVIQ scores in the normal range).

When you look at NAEP results for 2013, California's growth in eighth grade reading scores was the top in the nation, getting close to the national average despite high poverty and second language levels and ranking near the bottom in per - pupil expenditures.

Nationally, 61 per cent of pupils have reached the expected levels, an improvement of last year's score of 53 per cent.

Despite steps to increase per pupil spending, decrease student - teacher ratios, and recruit a better - prepared teaching force, student test scores have improved very slowly over the past 35 years.

Even given the per - pupil cost differential, Alliance schools have significantly higher Academic Performance Index (API) scores, 762 vs. 701, and better average SAT scores than LAUSD students, 1417 vs. 1299.

By contrast, OUSD spends more per pupil, has far lower test scores and college acceptance rates, more dangerous classrooms, and is steadily losing students as a result.

Reforms raised relative funding in the low - income districts by about $ 500 per pupil, which implies that increasing funding by $ 1,000 per pupil — about 10 percent of average funding over the period — raises test scores by 0.16 standard deviations.

It allows for at least 20 per cent of places to be reserved for pupils on free school meals, provided they meet a pre-designated minimum score.

They show very encouraging increases in attainment compared with the 2016 results, with 61 per cent of pupils reaching the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics (i.e. a scaled score of 100 or more or a teacher assessment of «reaching the expected standard» or «working at greater depth» in writing) in 2017 compared with 53 per cent in 2016.

And that's awkward, not only because those SATs results might well have determined which set pupils were put into (around 60 per cent of schools use SAT scores for setting), but also because it shows how precarious the progress measure for any one school really is.

Its data revealed that just nine per cent of secondary teachers feel key stage 2 test scores accurately reflected their pupils» academic standards.