Sentences with phrase «tests than the statewide average»

In 2015 - 16, the latest year available, cyber charter students in the majority of the 14 cyber charters fared worse on state math and reading tests than the statewide average of all public school students.

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These schools also have fewer black students than the statewide average, with 15.7 percent black students versus 24.9 percent statewide for students with third grade test scores.

In recent years, 86 percent of the school's 8th graders passed the state's writing test, above the statewide average of 62 percent and better than the public schools of wealthy Greenwich.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

Delaporte pointed to Department of Public Instruction data that shows less than 40 percent of Madison students have tested proficient in reading in recent years — slightly higher than the statewide average.

On one side, parents frustrated with the Payson Unified School District say they would welcome the K - 8 charter school, with a network of campuses with some 6,000 students statewide, higher than average test scores on most of its campuses, uniforms, new buildings and the relative freedom from state regulation charter schools enjoy.

Data for subgroups, such as children qualifying for free and reduced price lunch, children with disabilities, and children who are learning English, show lower performance at Whitney than for similar children statewide, and Whitney's overall test based performance and growth measured by tests is much lower than state averages.

In Michigan, charter schools showed greater gains than the statewide average in all but one of ten grades and subjects on the 2003 Michigan Assessment of Educational Progress (MEAP) test.