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All the K-5 schools passed. Hadley failed which meant that D41 failed.

Glen Crest passed...with a higher percentage of low-income students too.

Can't wait to take that place over.

Does low-income equate to less intelligent these days, GER?

Nope, not less intelligent in the slightest...but lower school performance is a factor in many lower-income families because often there is less involvement by the parents because of simple lack-of-time issues from having to put in more hours at work, etc...

To have higher test scores and a higher rate of lower-income kids just says that 89 is doing things right, IMHO.

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Originally posted by Clamato:
Does low-income equate to less intelligent these days, GER?

Equate - no. Correlate - yes.

Why are the same children with presumbaly the same parents passing at K-5 but failing when they hit Hadley.

Also am I reading this right, that to pass you only have to have 62.5 percent of your students at grade level. Is that all students. Considering the overall demographics of GE this seems very achievable.

From the very last page of the Report on Hadley, it appears that the shortfall in progress is limited to the economically disadvantaged subgroup in Mathematics. Unfortunately, only 51.3% met the standards, falling short of the 62.5% AYP goal. Overall, 91.6% of students met or exceeded standards in this testing area.

The D41 overall report shows that while 93% of all students tested, met or exceeded the standards for Reading, blacks fell short of the 62.5% reading goal at 43.2% (there is a "safe harbor target" of 55, but I don't really understand that number) and the economically disadvantaged Reading subgroup fell short of the 62.5 % target with 50% meeting/exceeding.

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OK - I'm not a math genius, but as I read this, there are 100 enrolled economically disadvantaged children.

This fact alone makes the percentages not make sense. How can there be a fraction of a percent of economically disadvantaged students meeting/exceeding standard when there are exactly 100 students enrolled and all 100 were tested?

Putting that aside, I find it unfortunate that the school doesn't pass due to the abilities of 12 students - if those 12 students had done better, the school would have been at 62.5%. Don't get me wrong, I want all children to meet/exceed expectations, but to fail a school for 12 kids seems extreme.