Sunday, April 13, 2008
Inquirer Education Scorecard 2008
Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer published the regional report card for the schools. Take a look and let us know what parts of the report made you sit up and take notice.
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No real surprises in here. However, there are two critical pieces of information that are necessary to do a real comparison of our district: income (and conversely, % of students below poverty level) and % of Special Ed students (yes, I know the pretty graph shows it to you but the tabular data does not so it's tough to include here).
With that said, here's how we did.
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When you compare Morrisville to the 17 other schools of similar size (standard deviation by enrollment), we get the following:
% Diversity is 16% lower than average. (Rank 12/18)
% Taking SAT's is 18% less than average. (Rank 15/18).
SAT Math is 29 points higher than average (Rank 6/18)
SAT Verbal is 56 points higher than average (Rank 4/18)
SAT Writing is 60 points higher than average (Rank 3/18)
AP Enrollment is misleading because we technically do not have AP, so it shows a misleading 0%.
This grouping includes New Hope Solebury who, not surprisingly, ranked highest in all 3 SAT categories, and Bristol Boro; Morrisville compares favorably to Bristol Boro.
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Now, comparing us to the entire population of schools (103) in the report, we did pretty well on SAT Verbal and Writing, otherwise we don't fare quite as well.
Enrollment, we are 809 students less than average (Rank 93/103 = 10%)
% Diversity: 10% higher than average (Rank 31/103 = 70%)
% Taking SATs: 19% less than average (Rank 88/103 = 15%)
SAT Math: 25 points lower than average (Rank 76/103 = 26%)
SAT Verbal: 8 points ABOVE average (Rank 57/103 = 45%)
SAT Writing: 15 points ABOVE average (Rank 50/103 = 51%)
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So, like I said, no surprises here. We need to work on math and we definitely need to get more students taking the SAT's.
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