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Originally Posted by ncrunner77
It would be interesting to see some socioeconomic data along with these test scores such as family income, % of students on free and reduced lunch and percentage of students with parents who have undergrad(+) degree/s. As these demographics themselves are excellent indicators of student academic achievement, it might give some unique insight into which schools are "over-performing" and which ones are "under-performing".
Something like this analysis from the Seattle area
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/n...y-schools.html
It gives kudos to schools that, though they don't have the highest test scores, have surprisingly high scores given their socioeconomically diverse (i.e. disadvantaged) student population. In a way, these are judged to be "the best schools". Makes sense to me; in a school where most households make 150K+/year and at least one parent has a masters+, I would expect test scores to be exceptional. |
Yes, it would be interesting to see. And the information is in the NC Report Card site. Maybe I will do a list of scores by "economically disadvantaged" students and one with those who are not. I agree that there are some schools that are doing very well with poorer students, but that information gets buried within the list of schools that do so well because most of their population is advantaged.
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