NJ.Com School Rankings.... (Haddonfield, Mendham: average, quality, top)

[tahiti]

Originally Posted by DP1987

Oh noes my town's HS is rated a B. I am forever doomed and I will never be able to sell my home in the future....

I think I might have made the dumbest purchase of my life. I can't believe I didn't check my local school's ranking before buying.

Oh wait, my kids aren't even in HS yet.... as a matter of fact I don't even have kids.... wait a sec I am not even married... s@#$ I am still single.

If I read the report correctly, a B is actually the best score. Your purchase is solid!

[Goldendoodle1969]

You have to love a school ranking system where B is the best I love a nice side of irony with my bacon and eggs in the morning.

[HalfFull]

Originally Posted by tdstyles

You have to love a school ranking system where B is the best I love a nice side of irony with my bacon and eggs in the morning.

I don't think B means best. They split the top performers into A and B; B has a bigger recent improvement, while A has been steady in it's better scores.

[tahiti]

Originally Posted by HalfFull

I don't think B means best. They split the top performers into A and B; B has a bigger recent improvement, while A has been steady in it's better scores.

i'll have to read it again (I only quickly browsed on my phone late last night), but I thought B was improvement in both areas, but A was improvement in only one. I'll look again.

[tahiti]

am I misinterpreting this? "B" seems best?

Schools that had higher than average test scores earned As and Bs, schools with Bs were the ones that showed the most improvement in the last 4 years. Schools with below average scores earned Cs and Ds, but the C schools showed growth in the last year, sometimes very rapid.

To clarify:

A - Above average scores, below average growth
B - Above average scores, above average growth
C - Below average scores, above average growth
D - Below average scores, below average growth.

[Praxis]

This ranking is garbage, the definition on the ranking said it all.

[tahiti]

Originally Posted by Praxis

This ranking is garbage, the definition on the ranking said it all.

in all fairness, you can say any ranking is garbage, right?

[sj08054]

A, B, C and D are not ranking.


They are categories. The writer should have use Group instead of letters since most people relate them to grades.

The article is very confusing because of this (at least that is the way I interpret it).

So bottom line:

A and B are good school
C and D are below average school.

This article just does a very poor job of trying to summarize the long NJ performance report. (New Jersey Department of Education | Report Card)

[MrsPiggleWiggle]

Originally Posted by tahiti

am I misinterpreting this? "B" seems best?

Schools that had higher than average test scores earned As and Bs, schools with Bs were the ones that showed the most improvement in the last 4 years. Schools with below average scores earned Cs and Ds, but the C schools showed growth in the last year, sometimes very rapid.

To clarify:

A - Above average scores, below average growth
B - Above average scores, above average growth
C - Below average scores, above average growth
D - Below average scores, below average growth.

This is such a silly scoring system. So D means your school is hopeless, C means you are improving but still suck. These two make sense and actually relate to "how students earn scores." But what the heck is with A and B? So A is for those schools who have already maxed out and are consistently the best (e.g. the valedictorian's report card) and B are for those schools who are trying to catch up to A?

If that's the case, then A is the best category right?

[stuckinsj]

So Columbia HS in SO/MW is good because its B and Cherry Hill is Bad because both HS are A? Haddonfield has a B too. Weird?