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>>Excellent - top schools
Summary - Asians are highly over-represented at the nation's most
elite examination schools and outstanding public schools. Asians are
75% of Lowell HS in San Francisco (even with a 40% quota on Chinese),
19% of Boston Latin Academy, 33% of Bronx Science NYC, 51% of
Stuyvesant NY C, 57% of Whitney HS in Cerritos CA, 48% of Sunny Hills
High in Fullerton CA, 28% of Illinois Math and Science Academy in a
state only 2.5% Asian.
There are basically two ways to create an amazing high school. Either
you put it in a city where the parents are all rich, all smart
(nuclear scientists or university professors) or both, or you select
the best from a large diverse district.
Ranking Ntl
Pctile SAT SATP
Seattle Lakeside 98 1310 95
Palo Alto Gunn 93 1137 87
San Francisco Lowell 86
Boston Latin 85?
CA State Average 902
@@African American Academy Seattle WA
My opinion? It's the worst freaking school in the system! But they're
not doing worse than an integrated environment. They need to get rid
of progressive ed if they're ever going to be like Marva Collins, or
Wesley or Barclay, and be a true African American success story.
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/education/html98/acaz_021499.html
Seattle Times February 14, 1999 Rescuing the dream: Seattle's African
American Academy by Linda Shaw Seattle Times staff reporter. School
is seen as refuge for black kids rejected elsewhere, some test scores
are better than dist avg for blacks, but scores as worst school in
the district (not mentioned in article!)
"Born seven years ago out of the frustration many black parents and
community leaders felt with other public schools, the academy aims to
break the pattern of low achievement and low expectations experienced
by many African-American youth... open to any student in the district
interested in learning much more about Africa and African Americans
than the occasional unit on civil rights or slavery - although so far
the enrollment has been virtually all black."
Highlights:
Stanford considered closing the school
Scores better than dist avg for blacks in middle school
a refuge of sorts for students kicked out of other schools
85% eligible for free/red lunch
19% live with both parents, lowest in district
40% live with relatives/foster parents
0% passed 7th grade WASL
National percentile rank
Academy vs dist black
Elementary
reading 45 37
language 35 37
math 37 37
middle
reading 37 30
language 47 35
math 32 27
Students, % Change in students below 25th percentile since 1996
elementary
elementary
reading 25.5/-14.5 36.5/-8.5
lanaguage 38.0/-3 34 /-9
math 40.0/-8 35.5/-11.5
middle
reading 29.5/-12 44/-2
language 21/-21 38/-5
math 36/-9 48/-6
@@Alhambra Traditional School
Public Schools Ignore Some Basic Truths. Warren North, Phoenix. For
the fourth year, Alhambra Taditional School, a basic school in
Phoenix 38% minority 26% f/r lunch has posted the highest reading and
language standardized test scores in the state. Public schools are
awash with "innovations" implated by ideologues and often funded with
federal dollars.
@@American Enterprise Magazine
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January/February 2001 The American Enterprise magazine
"Behind-the-scenes profiles of 14 dramatically varied schools with
one thing in common: Their students learn.
· The Calvert School, Baltimore, Maryland
· Benjamin Franklin Charters Schools, Mesa, Arizona.
· Mary Collins Preparatory Schools, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
· Safe family home school, San Diego, California.
· Piney Woods School, Piney Woods, Mississippi.
· City on a Hill Charter School, Boston.
· The Taft School, Watertown Connecticut.
· Frederick Douglass Academy, Harlem, New York.
· Hanna Sacks School, Chicago.
· City Springs Elementary School, Baltimore.
· Messmer High School, Milwaukee.
@@Arlington Traditional
\clip\99\06\arl.txt Richmond Times Dispatch Wednesday, February 10,
1999 Pondering the Secrets of School Success / School Engages Parents
From Start by Robert Holland . Arlington. Arlinton Traditonal near
DC 50% minority aced the inaugural round of Virginia Standards of
Learning (SOL) tests. The overall passing rate was well over 90
percent for the core subjects (98 percent for third-grade math; 96
percent for fifth-grade English) -- with an 83 for fifth-grade
history the only slip... easily exceeded the 70 percent pass mark
@@Arthur Andersen School
Wall Street Journal June 20, 2002
Andersen School Drops 'Teachers'
The Arthur Andersen School offers a poignant footnote to the saga of
the collapsed giant. Designed to demonstrate that the firm's
competence and conscience stretched deeper than corporate books, this
tiny high school may end up the last holder of the Arthur Andersen
name. [Cynical article that buzzwords trade student / teacher /
principal for learner / facilitaror / primary facilitator, etc]
@@Asian
GCruz points out many high
performing moderate income schools are heavily Asian.
@@Atlanta
See Richmond County
DAVIDSON MAGNET 42% BLACK IS #1 IN GEORGIA We are a small fine arts
and academic school with grades 5 through 12. We discovered several
years ago that a building does not mean a good or bad place for a
school. What makes our school work is the people involved.
Number one school in the Georgia state is Davidson Magnet - it's 42%
Black!
Web page: http://groupz.net/Davidson/index.html
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davidson@groupz.net
John S. Davidson Fine Arts School
1114 Telfair St.
Augusta, Georgia 30901
(706)823-6924
100% of students are college bound.
\doc\97\02\davis\sat.htm V595 M572(old 560) T1167 (new scale) ACTC 20.3
\doc\97\02\davis\student.htm students W46.6 B42.1 H3.0 A5.6 FL16.9 vs. 64.3
Parkview
High, Gwinnett County (mentioned in 1991 Orfield book as highest
TAP scores in Metro Atlanta)
Address:
998 Cole Dr.
Lilburn, GA 30247
Phone: 1-770-921-2874
TAP
Test of Achievement and Proficiency - mean national percentile
R = Reading, W=Writing, M=Math, SS=Social Studies, S=Science
1994-1995 TAP
------------------
11th Grade
R W M SS S
-- -- -- -- --
School 63 71 69 73 79
Gwinnett 55 60 69 61 70
Metro 50 57 62 57 62
State 46 53 56 51 57
ACT
American College Testing - College admission exam
1994-1995 ACT
---------------------------
Nmbr. of Pct. of
Students Seniors
Tested Tested Score SATV SATM
-------- ------- ------
School 150 33.3 22.6 432 498
Gwinnett 1,227 27.1% 21.6 424 489
Metro NA NA NA
State 12,189 NA 20.2 406 854
National 945,369 NA 20.8 482 910
SAT
Scholastic Aptitude Test Stanford is a major provider of study
programs designed to increase test results. Their SAT preparation
course is available for free on the Web.
1994-1995 SAT
----------------------------------------
Nmbr. of Pct. of
Students Seniors
Tested Tested Verbal Math Total
-------- ------- ------ ---- -----
School 372 100% 432 498 930
Gwinnett 3,101 76% 424 489 913
Metro NA NA NA NA NA
State 43,053 65% 406 448 854
National 1,067K 41% 428 482 910
Benjamin E. Mays High School Home page:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6362/ 3450 Benjamin E. Mays
Drive SW Atlanta, Georgia 30331 Phone: (404) 699-4537. This school
was mentioned by Gary Orfield as the only Atlanta school with test
scores comparable to suburban white schools in the area.
"Mays High School in Atlanta is the one black school to score
comparably to the overwhelmingly white schools, included a select
student body with fewer free lunches than any other city school.
Magnet programs screen students and their higher test score results are
built in by the selection process" It has the highest Iowa Basic
Skills test scores in the Atlanta school system.
Ethnic/ Gender: W0.4 B99.5 H0.0 A0.0 N0.0 M47.5 F52.5
Free/Red Lunch 42.1% vs. 79.9% system
Test mayssat.gif
442 math is about same as blacks in Fairfax County, Black over
$70,000, better than black average, but worse than poor whites
Based on last SAT test V448 M442 T890
System V429 M420 T849
ACTC 19.3 Sch 17.9 Sys 20.3 State
ACTM 19.4 Sch 17.9 sys 19.8 State
TAP95-96 78 47 58
TAP94-95 62 46 56
http://www.accessatlanta.com/local/educate.htm#grade
http://www.mindspring.com/~greyhnds/
clip\96\09\popehs.htm Pope HS is the highest rated
non-magnet school in the state of Georgia.
POPE AMONG GEORGIA'S TOP THREE HIGH SCHOOLS.
A report issued by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation has ranked Pope
High School as the number three High School in the state of Georgia. The
rankings were based on students scores on the SAT, the 11th grade Test of
Achievement, and their percenatge of college bound students. The two
schools which were ranked above Pope are both magnet schools.
STATE METRO TAP SAT PERCENT DROPOUT WEAPONS Black
RANK RANK SCHOOL SYSTEM SCORE SCORE COLLEGE RATE VIOLATIONS/
BOUND ENROLLMENT
1 n/a Davidson* Richmond 328.67 1020 100 0.2 0/550 42%
2 1 Chamblee* DeKalb 311.67 1017 85.7 2.5 1/1,107
3 2 Pope Cobb 310.67 982 85.8 0.7 3/1,993
4 3 Walton Cobb 303.67 983 90.2 0.9 4/2,061
5 4 North Springs Fulton 303.67 991 92.6 1.4 0/980
6 n/a Johnson Richmond 298.67 935 86.3 0.2 0/449
7 5 Chattahoochee Fulton 310 967 90.8 1.2 0/2,382
8 6 Parkview Gwinnett 303.67 930 86 1.1 16/1,966
9 7 Brookwood Gwinnett 302 949 86.8 0.5 9/2,450
10 8 Roswell Fulton 300.33 955 87.1 0.8 0/1,784
* denotes magnet school
Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Griff Doyle, President
2900 Chamblee-Tucker Road
Building 6
Atlanta, GA 30341-4128
770/455-7600, fax 770/455-4355
@@Baltimore Maryland
See Barclay Elementary School
@@Barbados
Network News - Spring 2002
Newsletter of the Minority Student Achievement Network
Barbados is a poor, underdeveloped country. Ninety-eight percent of
its people are of African descent. However, when the US Embassy
offered the SAT to 300 students in Barbados three years ago, the
average SAT score for those students was just over 1200. ...
www.msanetwork.org/pub/spring02.pdf
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link
Negro Barbados students outscore Asians & Whites in SAT scores
Black high-school students in Barbados, an island nation that
experienced slavery, average 1300 on their SATs.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/elder/1999/le10-18-99.htm
1996 SAT Test Scores
the national average for Asian (1,054) and
the national average for White (1,049) students. (See Table 4.)
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/mediapub/pressrel/SAT96.HTM
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/mediapub/pressrel/sattbls.htm#table4
@@Bellevue WA
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http://www.eastsidejournal.com/en/sbin/iarecord?NS-search-set=/35202/aaaa006aW202875&NS-doc-offset=6&NS-adv-search=0&
Bellevue International School: The 1st class is world-class By Molly
O'Connor Journal Reporter BELLEVUE -- Students at the International
School didn't have textbooks, grades or a principal when the school
opened in 1991.
Somerset Elementary got the highest 4th grade assessment - 72% passed
"standard" according to Bellevue school superindendent Mike Riley,
who cites it as evidence that the new test isn't too hard. It serves
the hill with lots of fancy houses in South Bellevue. 4th grade CTBS
scores were at the 72nd percentile. 30% minority, mostly Asian. Chart
shows CTBS scores at 91% above 50th percentile, the highest of any
school on the chart. Only 2% free / reduced lunch. (Only McAuliffe,
Margaret Mead Lk Wash, and 3 or 4 other schools at 1% are lower)
@@Best Districts
The 100 Best School Districts
http://www.offspringmag.com/tools/schools/index.cfm
These lists prove you need to be rich, have really smart
parents, or both
There are 2 Washington school districts among Offspring's 100
Best.
Pullman and Richland are the most affordable of these places, and
spend only about average amounts on their students.
School Location Enrollment Academic Living Expenditures
District Performance* Costs* per student*
Pullman Pullman 2292.0 98.0 50.0 66.0
-> Washington State University Faculty children
Richland Richland 9011.0 95.0 77.0 47.0
-> Hanford nuclear scientists
* percentile ranking within region
There are 7 California school districts among Offspring's 100
Best.
School Location Enrollment Academic Living Expenditures
District Performance* Costs* per student*
Palo Alto Palo 9437.0 99.0 99.0 90.0
Alto
-> Stanford University
Palos
Verdes Palos 9285.0 99.0 99.0 73.0
Peninsula Verdes
Piedmont Piedmont 2628.0 99.0 99.0 81.0
Beverly Beverly 5320.0 99.0 99.0 93.0
Hills Hills
-> Rich
Carmel Carmel 2452.0 99.0 94.0 81.0
-> Rich
Laguna Laguna
Beach Beach 2548.0 99.0 99.0 73.0
Modoc Alturas 1200.0 98.0 43.0 70.0
There are 4 Massachusetts school districts among Offspring's 100 Best.
School Location Enrollment Academic Living Expenditures
District Performance* Costs* per student*
Lexington Lexington 5570.0 99.0 98.0 94.0
Weston Weston 1971.0 99.0 99.0 94.0
Wellesley Wellesley 3523.0 99.0 98.0 96.0
Northampton Northampton 2988.0 95.0 82.0 80.0
@@Blue Ribbon schools US Dept of Education
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Bell El has
been designated a Blue Ribbon School by the US DofEd, one of only
four schools in the state to earn this distinction. cites increase in
WASL scores. "Parents give us valuable input on school programs, but
more important is the parent involvement in the classroom all year
long"
http://www.arthurhu.com/aeduc.htm#excelboston
@@Boston
MOST BOSTON LATIN STUDENTS COME FROM PRIVATE SCHOOLS
\clip\97\25\edclip5.txt Boston Globe Most pupils who tested twice
admitted By Beth Daley, Globe Staff, 10/28/97 This year, 54 percent
of Latin School's seventh-grade entering class and 74 percent of the
ninth-grade entering class are from private schools. The entrance
test, called the Independent School Entrance Exam, weighs heavily in
deciding who gets into the competitive schools. Last year, it was
revealed that many private and parochial schools prepared students
for the test, but not all Boston public schools did.
CULTURAL LITERACY LEADS TO HIGHEST MATH TEST SCORES IN MORSE BOSTON
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, NOT "EURO-CENTRIC"
http://www.boston.com/globe/
\clip\96\11\morse.htm 'Literate' at 7 or 8 By Jordana Hart Boston
Globe Staff, 12/06/96 Morse Elementary in Boston adopts the "Cultural
Literacy" theory of E. D. Hirsch, and had the highest math test
scores of any city school, educator found out it was not
"Euro-centric" at all
\clip\97\01\boslatpo.htm "In Boston, New Policy Stresses Scores"
Education Week Jan 15, 1997
BOSTON LATIN TO DROP RACE QUOTAS IN 1997
\clip\96\08\boslat.tx AP 15-Nov-1996 School Drops Racial Quotas
Policy Boston Latin decides to drop fight to maintain racial quotas,
will decide between proportional and other schemes, perhaps even a
lottery. Also various Boston Globe articles, check
http://www.boston.com/globe/met/latin/lathome.htm
ASIANS OVER-REPRESENTED AT LATIN ACADEMY
doc941\boslat1.txt: Boston Latin Academy
1992: pct: w42 b31 h+NA 8 a19
index: w1.0 (1.56) b-2.4 h-3.8 a1.4
BOSTON'S LATIN SCHOOLS USE DIFFERENT TEST CUTOFFS FOR WHITES,
MINORITIES
doc941\priv\latseg.txt
The Latin schools accept black and Hispanic students who rank in the
50th percentile or above on their entrance examination and grade point
average, said John Coakley, the School Department's chief
desegregation officer. At Latin School, the cutoff for whites and
Asians is about the 70th percentile, he said. At Latin Academy it is
about the 60th. The changes were implemented as part of Garrity's
desegregation orders in 1975.
@@California
priv\96\13\mixscore.htm San Francisco Chronicle Tuesday, April 30,
1996 · Page A1 PAGE ONE --"Mixed Scorecard on State High Schools Gap
between suburbs", cities Palo Alto's two high schools, Gunn and Palo
Alto, led in most categories. Other high-scoring schools included
Lynbrook in San Jose, Monta Vista in Cupertino, Saratoga, Piedmont,
Lowell in San Francisco, Campolindo in Moraga, Miramonte in Orinda
and Acalanes in Lafayette. At Gunn, for example, 95 percent of
seniors took the SAT. Of a possible 1600 points, the average score
at Gunn was 1137, well above the state average of 902. Among students
who took advanced-placement tests, nearly 87 percent qualified for
college credit.
The area's lowest-scoring schools included Castlemont, McClymonds and
Fremont in Oakland; Balboa, Galileo and Mission in San Francisco;
Richmond and Kennedy in Richmond; and tiny Emery in Emeryville.
\priv\95\20\humail.txt - balboa has the highest test scores in
the state of california
@@Chicago
[school that tests for iq] It was the new Northside College
Preparatory Academy (I think that's the official name; people I know
called it the "Chico school" because the #2 guy in CPS lives in the
neighborhood (along with a lot of cops and firefighters, almost all
white) and he is sending his daughter there. To:
@@Evergreen
==Evergreen Academy, Bothell WA
http://www.evergreenacademy.com/bothellhome.htm
Evergreen Academy, Bothell campus
16017 118th Place NE
Bothell, WA 98011
(425) 488-8000 Fax:(425) 488-0994
Normally $600 per month tuition
Sarah
G4 private
preschool / elmentary in Bothell WA
boasts 88 percentile on math, pretty
good even for a private school.
MATH 94 PERCENTILE IN 1997!
Test Results: On Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, national
percentile scores for 4th-graders in '94-95, '95-96 and '96-97
respectively: 90/91/94 for total battery, 91/91/91 for verbal, 88/89/94 for
computation.
Evergreen Academy 4th Grade Test Scores
vs. Other N/E Public School Districts Fall 1994
CTBS Total Reading LanguageMath
Evergreen Academ 95 85 91 88
Mercer Island 83 81 80 84
Lake Wash 64 65 58 67
Bellevue 65 63 62 64
North Shore 71 65 65 61
Shoreline 64 65 64 60
Monroe 47 52 52 50
Marysville 50 47 47 49
Everett 51 51 49 46
Mukilteo 59 51 48 44
Edmonds 44 47 45 37
%%GARFIELD
IS BEST PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL IN SEATTLE
link
http://www.seattletimes.com
GARFIELD: HIGH STANDARDS FOR ALL -> DRIVE OUT SLACKERS? Rigorous
time at Garfield High Seattle Times March 7th 1999 p. 1 One of
Seattle's most diverse schools wants to offer honors classes only
[Classic standards based ed - all will be in top 10% - or else,
higher order thinking, death to lecture, rote learning, but no stw]
Race vs Seattle avg
Native am 1.5 2.5
Af Am 30.8 22.1
Latino 3.6 7.5
Asian 12.1 28.4
White 52.0 39.6
Seattle School Dist 97-98
(only 1/3 underminority, close to natl avg)
GARFIELD HAS MOST NATIONAL MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS, #2 IN PER CAPITA
\doc\web\97\07\natlmer.txt "National Merit semifinalists named:
Garfield High has most in region with 25 Seattle Times Sept 21, 1997
p. B2 F092297 Lakeside school is number 2 with 15 in the state. 25
at Garfield are 7% of the senior class. 15 at Lakeside are 13% of
seniors. Statewide, finalists are less than 1% of the graduating
class.
\priv\96B\03\GARFIELD.HTM - named top public school in Seattle Weekly
newspaper
Test Scores: California Achievement Test
1993-94 1994-95 National Average
Reading 69 71 50
Language 63 61 50
Math 67 69 50
%%MADRONA HOUSES THE GIFTED ELEMENT IN SEATTLE
==LAKESIDE 28 #1, GARFIELD 15 #2 IN NATIONAL MERIT FINALISTS
\clip\98\12\merit.txt The Seattle Times Company Saturday, September
19, 1998 Lakeside tops National Merit semifinalists
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==LAKESIDE SCHOOL - PRIVATE SCHOOL OF CHAMPIONS
Lakeside school is the most prestigious school in the state of
Washington, it has the highest tuition, and test scores. Bill Gates
and Paul Allen met there.
Home Page
http://www.lakesideschool.org/main/default.html
Enrollment: 701 (349 boys, 352 girls)
Grades: 5 (32), 6 (64), 7 (78), 8 (82), 9 (114), 10 (114), 11 (115), 12 (109)
Faculty: 102 (46% men, 54% women)
Student/teacher ratio: 9:1
Average Class Size: 16
Students of color: 170
TUITION 1999-2000:
Middle School, Grades 5-8: $13,810*
Upper School, Grades 9-12: $14,380
Lakeside spends approximately $4,000 more on each student than is
represented by full tuition.
LAKESIDE #2 IN WA, 13% OF SENIORS ARE NATL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS
\doc\web\97\07\natlmer.txt "National Merit semifinalists named:
Garfield High has most in region with 25 Seattle Times Sept 21, 1997
p. B2 F092297 Lakeside school is number 2 with 15 in the state. 25
at Garfield are 7% of the senior class. 15 at Lakeside are 13% of
seniors. Statewide, finalists are less than 1% of the graduating
class.
\clip\97\01\lakeside.htm Copyright © 1997 The Seattle Times Company
Jan. 17, 1997 Lakeside gets big gift from Gates, Allen, McCaws by Dee
Norton Seattle Times staff reporter Lakeside School's most prominent
- and wealthiest - alumni returned to school bearing far more than an
apple for the teacher.
"Lakeside Legacy" Seattle Times June 11, 1995 p. M1 Called
"academically, the strongest, most rigorous education you can get in
the Seattle area". Alumni include Bill Gates, leaders in Paccar,
designers of the Space Needle.
Called 4/22/96 - SATV=660 =97pct, SATM=650=91pct SATC=1310, much better
than Palo Alto Gunn HS (87 SAT), best public school in CA.
Race W73.4 B7.6 H2.6 A16 N0.4
%%SEATTLE TIMES RANKING
See
http://texis.seattletimes.com/schoolguide/k9/stories/CTBS_4th_math.html
CTBS-4th Grade
These figures show w the percentage of students at each school who
scored above the 50th percentile -- that is, better than half of a
national norm group set by the testing company.
Highest proportion Lowest proportion
above 50th percentile above 50th percentile
Math Math
1. Somerset (Bellevue) 91% 1. M.L. King 12%
(Seattle)
2. Meridian (Kent) 90% 2. African Amer. 13%
Acad. (Seattle)
3. Ordway (Bainbridge 89% 3. Alt. Elem. No. 1 16%
Is.) (Seattle)
Carriage Crest 89% 4. Daniel (Kent) 17%
(Kent)
5. Lakeridge (Mercer 88% 5. Van Asselt 19%
I.) (Seattle)
6. Whittier (Seattle) 84% Madrona 19%
(Highline)
7. Cougar Ridge 82% 7. Emerson (Seattle) 21%
(Issaquah)
8. Medina (Bellevue) 81% 8. White Center Hts. 22%
(Highline)
Maple Hills 81% Fairmount Park 22%
(Issaquah) (Seattle)
Crystal Sprgs. 81% 10. Cedar Valley 23%
(Northshore) (Edmonds)
Rush (Lake Wash.) 81% 11. Thurgood Marshall 25%
(Seattle)
12. West Mercer (Mercer 80% 12. Bow Lake 26%
Is.) (Highline)
Hollywood Hill 80% 13. Oak Heights 27%
(Northshore) (Edmonds)
Fernwood 80% Bryn Mawr 27%
(Northshore) (Renton)
Sunset (Issaquah) 80% Adams (Seattle) 27%
Shelton View 80% Kent Elementary 27%
(Northshore) (Kent
%%Spectrum
Seattle Spectrum program gets
92nd percentile, but parents know ways around the program. In
"Seattle parents take fight-or-flight stance for school of choice"
(October 17), Seattle Times staff columnist Susan Nielsen offers
parents tips for getting their kids into the Seattle public school of
their choice:
o Change your child's race on the application form.
o Get into the Spectrum program for gifted students, even if it means
an expensive private test.
%%ZION ACADEMY FOR BLACK CHILDREN
\priv\96\19\charsco.htm
Seattle times June 5, 1996 "Charter-school backers talk about their
aims Rainier's Zion cited as good example." Seattle's private Zion
academy is nearly all African American, mostly poor or single family
homes, but their test scores are 5 points above national average
instead of 20 points behind whites.
Comment - this is one of the few schools known to take normally
under-performing black kids and have them perform above-average.
However, note that being 5 points above national average still puts
them 5 points behind city whites, who are generally 10 points above
national average. As a rule, there are no schools or school districts
where black achievement is the equal of whites in the same school or
district.
%%INDIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL
\doc\96\03\aminheri.txt "Creating a True Heritage" Seattle Times
April 20, 1996 p. 1 Seattle has an Americn Indian Heritage school
designed especially for Native American students which draws students
from as far away as Centralia (2 hrs each way), and from other races.
100% of grads enroll in college, one student GPA went from 1.8 to 3.0
@@Sowell Thomas
\clip\97\23\sowell1.gif "So-Called 'elitist' schools aid the poor
more than anyone. Thomas Sowell Seattle Times Oct 10, 1997 Cites NY
Stuyvesant, blacks in PS5 in Harlem had scores as good as immigrant
whites, more blacks went to Stuyvesant in 1938 than in 1983. In
Washington DC, Dunbar High has a new building, but in the 1930s, the
all-black student body had test scores above the national average,
turned out the 1st black general, first black cabinet member. More
than 25% of graduates who graduated from Amherst college were PBK,
two dozen of blacks with ranks from major to brigadier general were
Dunbar. Now blacks denounce elitists schools, and denounce the memory
of a school destroyed when it was turned into a neighborhood school.
@@Tennesee
an article in Nashville magazine
recently. It rated our two accelerated academic magnet high schools
right up there with the better private schools around (97th to 99th
percentile).
Blue Ribbon
Schools \clip\97\24\tennbest.htm
arthur: << The only examples of (high performing middle class whites)
I've found are near high tech military bases and government
installations like Hanford where the parents are modestly paid rocket
or nuclear scientists. >> Dave shearon: Anderson County schools, Oak
Ridge, and Tullahoma schools are examples of this in TN. These
schools are routinely discounted by education folks on the theory
that the results are based on parental support.
Tullahoma
How Well Children Score, Grade by Grade, percentile vs. other
state districts
Grade Language Reading Math Science Social
----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
2 86.00 92.00 61.00 91.00 89.00
3 95.00 96.00 96.00 99.00 92.00
4 87.00 94.00 76.00 92.00 96.00
5 98.00 93.00 96.00 91.00 97.00
6 90.00 99.00 94.00 90.00 94.00
7 88.00 96.00 90.00 85.00 82.00
8 98.00 97.00 93.00 94.00 94.00
How students score on math at Tullahoma High School
Pre-Algebra 92.00 Above
Algebra 1 90.00 Above
Algebra 2 94.00 Above
Geometry 97.00 Above
Oak Ridge (Nuclear Labs)
http://edge.edge.net/cgi-bin/schrpt?E%Oak+Ridge
How Well Children Score, Grade by Grade, percentile vs. other state school
systems
Grade Language Reading Math Science Social
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2 40.00 82.00 55.00 87.00 84.00
3 88.00 95.00 91.00 98.00 89.00
4 93.00 99.00 92.00 97.00 99.00
5 95.00 96.00 85.00 91.00 90.00
6 95.00 97.00 96.00 90.00 96.00
7 89.00 98.00 91.00 97.00 95.00
8 93.00 98.00 95.00 96.00 98.00
(2nd grade math looks like a fluke, everything else is 85-95!)
Anderson County
How Well Children Score, Grade by Grade (
Grade Language Reading Math Science Social
2 51.00 55.00 50.00 53.00 38.00
3 50.00 54.00 62.00 42.00 46.00
4 43.00 58.00 57.00 54.00 39.00
5 36.00 36.00 58.00 60.00 59.00
6 66.00 56.00 66.00 59.00 65.00
7 72.00 66.00 84.00 68.00 80.00
8 50.00 40.00 66.00 32.00 58.00
Dave Shearon: DaveTNCLE@aol.com Can you name any schools that are
outstanding because of their teacher's value added scores???>>
Maryville Middle School, Maryville, TN (Dave Shearon, Nashville, TN)
Comment - well, Marysville middle school shows up on a blue ribbon
list, and the math test scores are spectacular, with math scores
93-99th percentile in grades 6 to 8, and income and parental
education isn't spectacular, $25,000 median houshold income is below
average, 24% college income is above average, but nothing like the
50% level typical of a "best" community. But it's 95% white, so it
doesn't count as a minority success school, just a great middle class
white school. The only examples of these I've found are near high
tech military bases and government installations like Hanford where
the parents are modestly paid rocket or nuclear scientists.
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1990 US Census Data
Database: C90STF3A
Maryville city: FIPS STATE=47, FIPS PLACE90=46380
Hinc El-High
Num % PCIncome %4Coll Over $35kSchool
Total 19208 100.0% $13,420 23.7%
White 18378 95.1% $13,668 23.9% 35.5% 94.0%
Black 555 2.9% $7,089 17.0% 18.2% 3.5%
American Indian, Eskimo, o 66 0.3% $27,800 39.6% 61.0% 0.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander 183 1.0% $3,396 15.5% 25.7% 2.1%
Other race 26 0.1% $6,772 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
Hispanic 102 0.5% $1,019 0.0% 0.0% 0.4%
White is minus Hispanic
Median House Inc $25,223
Maryville Middle School Maryville Maryville City Schools 1994-96
http://edge.edge.net/cgi-bin/schrpt?E%Maryville%Maryville+Middle+School
State Percentile scores
How Much Children Learn at Maryville Middle School
Language Reading Math Science Social
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65.80 60.70 93.70 72.50 5.40
(ranking of "improvment" in scores)
How Well Children Score, Grade by Grade
Grade Language Reading Math Science Social
----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
6 95.00 94.20 93.40 93.70 88.50
7 97.80 97.80 99.80 99.20 91.90
8 95.60 96.50 99.20 97.20 84.90
How students score on math at Maryville Middle School
Algebra 1 99.00 Above
Sam Houston Elementary School, Maryville County
How Well Children Score, Grade by Grade
Grade Language Reading Math Science Social
----- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
2 76.10 80.70 77.20 92.40 79.70
3 91.40 95.10 98.20 88.60 91.00
4 87.60 92.70 94.80 91.60 88.00
5 95.90 96.20 95.80 93.40 93.40
@@Virginia
ARLINGTON TRADITIONAL WAS ONE OF 2% OF SCHOOLS THAT PASSED TEST
\clip\99\02\edclip05.txt Richmond Times-Dispatch The SOL Results Show
What Must Be Done Wednesday, January 13, 1999 Robert Holland an
elementary school called Arlington Traditional, in Northern
Virginia.. scores were top-of-the-chart -- i.e., 92 percent passing
third grade English, 96 percent fifth grade English, 98 percent third
grade math; This is a school featuring teacher-directed instruction
in an orderly, structured environment. Students come to the school,
by choice, from all over the county. There are waiting lists to get
in.
