Achievement over the past three years, by student
characteristics
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What you are looking at:
This graph shows more generally how schools are functioning, using three years of achievement data for math, reading and writing – aggregated from the related sub-tests – broken out by groups of students with similar characteristics. The bar represents 100% of students with each characteristic placed along a horizontal line according to the percent who achieved proficiency and the percent who did not.
What you are looking for:
You are looking for the shortfalls between the 100% goal and the actual attained proficiency of children with certain comparable characteristics. You are also looking for gaps between the achievement of groups of students with different characteristics.
General school-functioning at a glance
What is most painful about these graphs is that with the exception of 4th grade
reading, the majority of the scores, in all sub-groups, appear below the line indicating RI’s proficiency standard. (Bear in mind that RI’s standards are very rigorous compared to many states.) Over the years we are finding that slowly, incrementally, our elementary students are becoming increasingly proficient readers. But proficiency in all areas declines from elementary through secondary and are especially disheartening at high school, where nearly 18% of the children have dropped out by grade 12 and whose academic achievement, which we conjecture to be poor, is not even included in the chart.
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