A list of SFUSD elementary schools with average CST scores for economically disadvantaged students is at the end.
Readers with household incomes under 185% of the Federal Poverty level ($42,000 for a family of 4), what's your take? Is this information useful or not useful?
Sources:
School CST Scores for Economically Disadvantaged Students
Grades 2-5, 2011-2012
Economically disadvantaged means under 185% of the federal poverty level, about $42,000 for a family of four. This list is ordered by the percentage of economically disadvantaged 2nd-5th graders who took the CST at each school. This percentage is slightly different from the percentages for the school enrollment.
School
|
% of Students Tested Who Were Economically Disadvantaged
|
English
|
Math
|
CIS at DeAvila
|
16%
|
347
|
413
|
Miraloma
|
16%
|
363
|
377
|
Clarendon
|
16%
|
387
|
434
|
Grattan
|
18%
|
365
|
368
|
Lilienthal
|
21%
|
364
|
388
|
Creative Arts
|
26%
|
324
|
307
|
Peabody
|
29%
|
371
|
396
|
Sunset
|
30%
|
375
|
424
|
Lafayette
|
30%
|
372
|
417
|
Yu
|
31%
|
386
|
446
|
Feinstein
|
32%
|
368
|
396
|
Rooftop
|
36%
|
351
|
367
|
McKinley
|
38%
|
350
|
358
|
Argonne
|
42%
|
365
|
401
|
Alvarado
|
43%
|
336
|
352
|
New Traditions
|
44%
|
346
|
377
|
West Portal
|
44%
|
377
|
409
|
Alamo
|
45%
|
377
|
418
|
Sherman
|
45%
|
393
|
439
|
King (Starr)
|
45%
|
314
|
344
|
Jefferson
|
47%
|
371
|
413
|
Commodore Sloat
|
48%
|
363
|
396
|
Milk
|
51%
|
361
|
365
|
Key
|
53%
|
382
|
417
|
Lawton
|
54%
|
387
|
450
|
Lakeshore
|
55%
|
343
|
365
|
Sunnyside
|
56%
|
350
|
368
|
Stevenson
|
57%
|
397
|
459
|
Ortega
|
59%
|
369
|
413
|
Fairmount
|
60%
|
326
|
331
|
Yick Wo
|
60%
|
376
|
432
|
Ulloa
|
63%
|
398
|
442
|
Parks
|
65%
|
340
|
356
|
McCoppin
|
66%
|
347
|
385
|
Sutro
|
69%
|
370
|
410
|
SF Community
|
70%
|
333
|
341
|
Flynn
|
72%
|
324
|
325
|
Buena Vista K8
|
72%
|
316
|
354
|
Revere
|
76%
|
349
|
386
|
Carmichael/FEC
|
77%
|
351
|
381
|
Monroe
|
78%
|
347
|
376
|
Garfield
|
78%
|
364
|
428
|
Webster
|
78%
|
346
|
321
|
Longfellow
|
80%
|
353
|
387
|
A couple of points -
ReplyDeleteFirst, if you take a look at STAR participation by grade (STAR is only tabulated by grade unlike API), low performing schools have significantly lower numbers of test takers, which is to say the actual scores would be even worse than the posted grade level scores. This is because those student who don't take the test are almost always among the lowest performers. Conversely, schools with the highest scores have close to full participation.
The second point has to to with higher performing students doing worse at lower performing schools. It is not difficult to understand that schools which have to teach to large numbers of low performing students will have a more difficult time delivering the higher level instruction to those students that require it. As a result, these students are unlikely to test as well as their counterparts at other schools which can deliver that advanced instruction.
Simply put, if a teacher cannot make it through all the curriculum, test results are likely to suffer.
Students who struggle academically work at a slower pace. That's just the way it is and differentiated teaching can only go so far when large majorities of student are below and far below basic.
Interesting data!
ReplyDeleteThanks for crunching the numbers.
"Economically disadvantaged" is a very broad category, especially in SFUSD, so I would not draw too many generalizations from this chart. You really have to know something about a school. My kids at a school where the economically disadvantaged kids are mostly from nearby public housing and many are in some very tough family circumstances. They are facing very different challenges compared to Chinese immigrant kids on the west side, who also are often economically disadvantaged. So the numbers are useful, but you have to be careful, too.
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