Sentences with phrase «slightly higher percentage of students»

In addition, the traditional schools have a slightly higher percentage of students who qualify for the federal free or reduced - price lunch program.»

This year, a slightly higher percentage of students skipped the tests — 22 percent, compared to 20 percent in 2015.

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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.

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 %.

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.

Even in the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program, however, which is open to low - and middle - income families statewide, the percentage of low - income students enrolled is slightly higher than their percentage of the overall K — 12 population.

Compared with students statewide, a slightly smaller percentage of Snohomish County high - school students dropped out of school in 2002 - 2003, but a larger percentage failed to graduate in four years.

Even better, 80 percent of black male students now graduate within six years, which is slightly higher than the rate for black females and an improvement of 18 percentage points.

A slightly higher percentage of secondary preservice teachers (58 %) acknowledged their students» use of technology than did elementary preservice teachers (47 %).

Yet a StateImpact Indiana analysis of results from the state's standardized test released Tuesday also show passage rates among charter schools with high percentages of low - income students are slightly worse than passage rates in public schools, as the graph after the jump shows.

Not surprisingly, the charter schools represented by authorizers at the event showed lower percentages of students with disabilities, and slightly higher rates of suspension and expulsion than the Detroit Public schools.