* «A» is the state of PA's
smallest school size rating.
Not exact matches
The
school in his neighborhood has a poverty
rate of 62 % (62 % of students qualify for free or reduced - fee lunch), and is overcrowded because the governor doesn't think
small class
sizes are important.
«Year after year we have seen cuts or
small increases that haven't kept up with inflation,» said Ms. James, who bemoaned a list of problems with city
schools including large class
sizes,
schools closing, the high drop out
rate for children of color and cuts to music and arts programming.
«The ossicles are very
small structures, and one reason the surgery has a high failure
rate is thought to be due to incorrect
sizing of the prostheses,» said study author Jeffrey D. Hirsch, M.D., assistant professor of radiology at the University of Maryland
School of Medicine (UMSOM) in Baltimore.
While charter
schools have expanded at an impressive
rate, the
size of these
schools has remained
small: about 140 students.
More than 150,000 students are enrolled in charter
schools that either received a 2017 A-F letter grade or can't be
rated due to its
small size.
Findings in the existing literature of effects of
school size show
small schools advantage on curricular diversity, academic achievement, daily attendance
rates, teacher and student morale, student and parent participation, etc..
It is a successful
school,
rated good by Ofsted, which aims high academically, promotes sport and keeps class
sizes small
Schools and class
sizes used to be
smaller, dropout
rates lower, in -
school violence almost unheard of, and teachers weren't terrified of showing affection to their students, or of discussing moral values.