NC Report Cards 2015-2016 (Raleigh, Durham: chapel, middle schools, colleges)

[michgc]

2015-2016 High School End-of-Course (EOC) Percent Proficient (score of 3, 4, or 5)/College Ready (score of 4 or 5)

Green=Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Red=Chatham County
Brown=Durham County
Pink=Johnston County
Orange=Orange County
Blue=Wake County
Purple=Charter

Exploris School 95.0/95.0
Raleigh Charter 95.0/93.6
Leesville Road High 95.0/90.8
Wake Early College of Health and Science 95.0/88.2
Clement Early College High School 94.8/84.7
Triangle Math and Science Academy 93.8/88.3
Wake STEM Early College High School 93.7/89.9
Woods Charter 92.5/88.0
Johnston County Early College Academy 90.9/85.7
East Chapel Hill High 86.2/81.5
Panther Creek High 85.2/78.8
Middle College High School @DTCC 84.6/84.6
Green Hope High 83.3/77.0
Research Triangle Charter 80.8/53.8
CHAPEL HILL - CARRBORO 79.8/74.6
Apex Friendship High 79.0/70.0
Apex High 78.6/71.9
Research Triangle High 77.9/70.7
Durham School of the Arts 77.9/70.2
Hawbridge Charter 77.6/67.2
Holly Springs High 75.1/65.9
Carrboro High 73.8/67.1
Chapel Hill High 73.7/67.1
Cary High 71.9/63.1
City of Medicine Academy 71.4/68.2
Middle Creek High 71.1/63.4
Enloe High 71.0/65.4
WAKE COUNTY 69.1/60.8
Corinth Holders 68.7/58.2
Southern Wake Academy 68.1/60.0
Heritage High 67.1/58.1
Wake Forest High 66.5/57.5
Cleveland High 64.8/54.6
West Johnston High 64.7/52.9
Fuquay-Varina High 63.7/53.1
Wakefield High 62.6/53.0
Millbrook High 62.4/52.3
JOHNSTON COUNTY 62.3/52.1
ORANGE COUNTY 61.8/53.1
Needham Broughton 61.0/53.0
Cedar Ridge 60.6/51.4
Clayton High 59.6/49.1
Sanderson High 58.7/49.9
NORTH CAROLINA 58.5/49.0
Orange High 57.2/47.6
Northwood High 56.3/49.4
CHATHAM COUNTY 56.0/47.6
Princeton High 55.9/44.3
Athens Drive High 55.7/47.7
Vernon Malone College and Career Academy 53.7/40.3
South Johnston High 53.0/42.2
Chatham Central High 52.6/42.8
Rolesville High 50.2/40.1
School for Creative Studies 50.0/35.9
Garner High 49.8/39.3
North Johnston High 47.5/35.1
Jordan Matthews 47.2/35.6
Jordan High 46.8/39.5
DURHAM COUNTY 46.2/37.8
East Wake High 46.1/34.6
Southeast Raleigh High 44.1/32.0
Riverside High 43.5/35.3
Smithfield-Selma 43.4/33.8
Hillside New Tech High 38.6/22.1
Hillside High 37.9/28.9
Northern High 37.8/29.4
Knightdale High 28.8/20.2
Philips High 21.4/12.3
Southern School of Engergy and Sustainability 20.2/12.4

Source:NC School Report Cards: https://ncreportcards.ondemand.sas.c...C+Report+Cards
Any errors are my own from transcribing
Link to 2014-2015 High School EOC Scores: 2014-2015 High School EOC Percent Proficient

[JaPaKoMom]

Interesting. After viewing the ACT score list, why would a school do appreciably better on one list and not the other? Thanks for posting and all your work involved michgc!

[poppydog]

That is interesting JaPaKoMom. I wonder if there's more teaching to the test or something, but I'm not sure which test.

[W26]

Isn't Exploris K-8?

[lb27608]

Originally Posted by W26

Isn't Exploris K-8?

Yes. So is Research Triangle Charter and perhaps some other schools on this list. I suspect those results come from a subset of their 8th graders taking the EOC for Math I.

[W26]

Yes, I think you must be right. I just looked up some other middle schools. Ligon Middle, Carnage Middle, Endeavor, West Millbrook Middle, Leesville Rd. Middle all have math 1 scores >/= 95%.

[michgc]

Originally Posted by W26

Isn't Exploris K-8?

Thanks for letting me know. I'm not very familiar with the charter schools and was just taking a guess at what was a high school. So I guess we can ignore that from the list.

[W26]

There are so many charters, I thought maybe there was another exploris that I hadn't heard of. Thanks for making the list!

[michgc]

Originally Posted by JaPaKoMom

Interesting. After viewing the ACT score list, why would a school do appreciably better on one list and not the other? Thanks for posting and all your work involved michgc!

I was wondering the same thing. I don't know the answer, but here are some things I was thinking about regarding it. The ACT is more important to get into colleges. No college cares about how well a student does on its state's standardized test. So perhaps there is some emphasis on the ACT in certain schools or perhaps in some schools the reverse happens and they emphasize the state test more.

Also, the tests measure different things. The NC EOC tests are mostly measuring content that the students should have learned in the past year for a particuar course, Math 1, Biology, etc. The ACT measurement is likely much broader and tests knowledge acquired from earlier years in school as well. In the past I have also noticed that scores between different tests don't always correlate. For example, Chapel Hill Schools usually top the list on SAT scores across the state, but they don't usually top the list on the NC EOC tests.

The other thing is, this is the first time I have put together a list of ACT scores, and after discussing it with Poppydog on the other thread, it is only showing the percentage of students who got a composite score of 17 or above, which is only the minimum score to be considered admission to a UNC school. Looking at the list, ones takeaway might be that many schools did pretty well, but it seems like that is a fairly low bar, and I'm not sure if it's really equivalent to getting a 3, 4, or 5 on the NC EOC, which is what the first number on this list shows.

If I compile a list that shows the percentage of students who are considered "college ready" on the ACT which equates to getting a score that varies between 18 and 23 on each subject test, it will likely show a much different story. If I have some free time today, I might do it and add it to that thread. The second number in this thread about the EOC test shows the percentage of students who scored a 4 or 5 on the test, which is also supposed to mean "college ready." So it will be interesting to see if there is a correlation between those. Although, what NC is calling "college ready" might not be the same as what the ACT calls "college ready."