ELA scores: December 18, 2012

Grade 8: 21% score 1 or 2

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Legend (top chart):

“As of July, 2010, NYSED updated its definitions for achievement levels. Lev1 is defined as “Below Standard”. Lev2 is defined as “Meets Basic Standard”. %Lev3 is defined as “Meets Proficiency Standard”. Lev4 is defined as “Exceeds Proficiency Standard”. See the NYSED web site for more information.”

Source: Student Performance Review
Presentation to the Board of Education
December 18, 2012

From 2008: “Irvington students, in fact, perform very well on standardized tests, especially in grades 3-8 where they scored at least in the 93rd percentile in ELA state standards.”
From 2010: On New York School Tests, Warning Signs Long Ignored
Also from 2010: The Test Mess

• All posts related to student achievement and test scores
• INDEX of topics and posts
• Per pupil spending $28,517

History Regents 5.1.2012

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SOURCE: Student Performance Review – May 1, 2012
(please click on link for full report)

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• ALL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT POSTS
• INDEX of topics and posts

Why the AP pass rate matters

The 2012 Challenge Index shows 55.6% of Irvington students passing at least one AP exam by graduation.

The reason this figure matters is that Advanced Placement courses are, in theory, the equivalent of a college course.

So: 92% of Irvington students attend a 4-year college the year after graduation, but just 55.6% of Irvington students have passed at least one AP exam during high school.

What happens during the summer after graduation to make the other 36% ready to take a college-level course and succeed?

AND SEE:
• AP pass rates
• 55.6% I.H.S. pass at least 1 AP exam by graduation
• Why the AP pass rate matters
• What is the Equity and Excellence score?
• College readiness scores (US News)
• Explanation of “Equity and Excellence” score (E&E)

ELA scores compared 5.1.2012

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SOURCE: Student Performance Review – May 1, 2012
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AND SEE:
• ELA scores – grades 3-8 & Regents (5/1/2012)
• ELA scores compared (5/1/2012)
• AP pass rates (5/1/2012)
• math scores (5/1/2012)
• math scores compared (5/1/2012)

• per pupil spending
• What do home buyers want?
• what people who do not have children in the schools spend to educate the children of people who do

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• ALL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT POSTS
• INDEX of topics and posts

ELA scores 5.1.2012

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Levels 3 and 4 should be disaggregated and the cut scores and ranges specified.

From presentation: “As of July, 2010, NYSED updated its definitions for achievement levels. %Lev1 is defined as “Below Standard”. %Lev2 is defined as “Meets Basic Standard”. %Lev3 is defined as “Meets Proficiency Standard”. %Lev4 is defined as “Exceeds Proficiency Standard”. See the NYSED web site for more information.”

SOURCE: Student Performance Review – May 1, 2012
(please click on link for full report)

AND SEE:
• ELA scores – grades 3-8 & Regents (5/1/2012)
• ELA scores compared (5/1/2012)
• AP pass rates (5/1/2012)
• math scores (5/1/2012)
• math scores compared (5/1/2012)

• per pupil spending
• What do home buyers want?

AND SEE:
• ALL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT POSTS
• INDEX of topics and posts

AP exam pass rate: 55.6%

Equity & Excellence (E&E) scores.

Equity & Excellence is “the percentage of grapduates who passed at least one college-level test [AP or IB] during their high school career.”

New York high schools (131 schools) 2012	Equity and Excellence: % passing at least 1 AP exam by graduation
Bronxville	95.9%
Rye	91%
Horace Greeley 2011	79%
Edgemont	78%
Yonkers	77% (IB program)
Dobbs Ferry	74% IB (52.8% in 2011)*
Adlai Stevenson High School Lincolnshire, IL	70.8%
Pleasantville	66%
Rye Neck	65%
Briarcliff	61%
Irvington	55.6%
Croton Harmon	55%
Sleepy Hollow	39.8%

^* With only 2 years of data, it’s not clear how to interpret Dobbs Ferry’s jump.

UPDATE 11/23/2013: According to the high school principal, our most recent “Equity and Excellence” score is 63%. Sixty-three percent of last year’s graduating class had passed at least one AP test.

AND SEE:
• ELA scores – grades 3-8 & Regents (5/1/2012)
• ELA scores compared (5/1/2012)
• AP pass rates (5/1/2012)
• Math scores (5/1/2012)
• Math scores compared (5/1/2012)

• Per pupil spending
• What do home buyers want?

• ALL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT POSTS
• INDEX of topics and posts

ADVANCED PLACEMENT
• AP pass rates
• 55.6% I.H.S. pass at least 1 AP exam by graduation
• Why the AP pass rate matters
• What is the Equity and Excellence score?
• College readiness scores (US News)

Math scores compared 5.1.2012

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SOURCE: Student Performance Review – May 1, 2012
(please click on link for full report)

AND SEE:
• ELA scores – grades 3-8 & Regents (5/1/2012)
• ELA scores compared (5/1/2012)
• AP pass rates (5/1/2012)
• math scores (5/1/2012)
• math scores compared (5/1/2012)

• per pupil spending
• What do home buyers want?

AND SEE:
• ALL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT POSTS
• INDEX of topics and posts

Math scores 5.1.2012

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from presentation: As of July, 2010, NYSED updated its definitions for achievement levels. %Lev1 is defined as “Below Standard”. %Lev2 is defined as “Meets Basic Standard”. %Lev3 is defined as “Meets Proficiency Standard”. %Lev4 is defined as “Exceeds Proficiency Standard”. See the NYSED web site for more information.

SOURCE: Student Performance Review – May 1, 2012
(please click on link for full report)

The Powerpoint doesn’t tell us how many students took Algebra/Trigonometry.

AND SEE:
• ELA scores – grades 3-8 & Regents (5/1/2012)
• ELA scores compared (5/1/2012)
• AP pass rates (5/1/2012)
• Math scores (5/1/2012)
• Math scores compared (5/1/2012)

• Per pupil spending
• What do home buyers want?

AND SEE:
• ALL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT POSTS
• INDEX of topics and posts

AP pass rates

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SOURCE: Student Performance Review – May 1, 2012 (Please click on link for full report) s

Not entirely sure what this means. Assuming “N Taking” means “number of students who took the AP exam,” we see a 67% pass rate on AP exams (500 exams taken, 336 passing scores).

UPDATE 11/23/2013: Assuming the slide above is the same as the slide in this year’s report, “N Taking” means the number of students taking the test — not the number of students taking an AP course.

We don’t know what proportion of the total student body has taken and passed at least one AP course by graduation. update 6/1/2012: The percentage of Irvington graduates who passed at least one college-level test [AP or IB] during their high school career is 55.6%

Another 112 exams weren’t taken at all. We don’t know how many of those students would have passed but skipped the exam due to senioritis or other factors.

And we don’t know the distribution of 3s, 4s, and 5s, which is especially  important in a high-performing district.

AND SEE:
• ELA scores – grades 3-8 & Regents (5/1/2012)
• ELA scores compared (5/1/2012)
• AP pass rates (5/1/2012)
• Math scores (5/1/2012)
• Math scores compared (5/1/2012)

• Per pupil spending
• What do home buyers want?

ADVANCED PLACEMENT
• AP pass rates
• 55.6% I.H.S. pass at least 1 AP exam by graduation
• Why the AP pass rate matters
• What is the Equity and Excellence score?
• College readiness scores (US News)

• ALL STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT POSTS
• INDEX of topics and posts