Saturday, April 6, 2013

Draw your own conclusions

Examining the 2013 Guide to Western Pennsylvania Schools published by the Pittsburgh Business Times, I was able to come up with more details per school.  I continually get comments from snipers, accusing me of putting negative slants on articles. Draw your own conclusions, folks. You are not going to see this on the school district website.






% scoring superior
% scoring superior
% scoring superior
2013
2012
School
Grade
Math
Reading
Writing
Science
1
1
USC
11
90
93
98
75
2
2
MTL
11
90
94
99
74
                                   





% scoring superior
% scoring superior
% scoring superior
2013
2012
School
Grade
Math
Reading
Writing
Science
1
1
Ft. Couch (USC)
8
99
99
98
91
2
4
Jefferson MS
8
94
99
94
90
8
10
Mellon MS
8
93
95
92
90
                                   





% scoring superior
% scoring superior
% scoring superior
2013
2012
School
Grade
Math
Reading
Writing
Science
1
1
Ft. Couch (USC)
7
98
96
NA
NA
2
5
Jefferson MS
7
96
97
NA
NA
7
8
Mellon MS
7
95
98
NA
NA






% scoring superior
% scoring superior
% scoring superior
2013
2012
School
Grade
Math
Reading
Writing
Science
4
3
Boyce (USC)
6
96
94
NA
NA
5
7
Jefferson MS
6
95
92
NA
NA
25
26
Mellon MS
6
93
87
NA
NA







% scoring superior
% scoring superior
% scoring superior
2013
2012
School
Grade
Math
Reading
Writing
Science
2
3
Lincoln
5
100
97
95
NA
4
4
Aiken (KO)
5
94
89
97
NA
5
5
Howe
5
93
96
83
NA
7
16
Foster
5
98
93
100
NA
13
49
Hoover
5
93
88
91
NA
16
13
Jefferson
5
86
93
89
NA
30
33
Markham
5
91
83
88
NA
40
38
Washington
5
87
83
82
NA






% scoring superior
% scoring superior
% scoring superior
2013
2012
School
Grade
Math
Reading
Writing
Science
2
7
Howe
4
100
98
100
NA
6
15
Lincoln
4
99
96
99
NA
9
24
Foster
4
100
98
100
NA
12
49
Markham
4
100
97
99
NA
18
26
Aiken (KO)
4
100
91
100
NA
29
29
Hoover
4
95
89
100
NA
35
55
Jefferson
4
95
95
96
NA
44
50
Washington
4
95
90
97
NA






% scoring superior
% scoring superior
% scoring superior
2013
2012
School
Grade
Math
Reading
Writing
Science
1
7
Lincoln
3
98
100
NA
NA
18
23
Baker (USC)
3
93
93
NA
NA
24
34
Markham
3
96
90
NA
NA
32
46
Jefferson
3
98
90
NA
NA
42
40
Foster
3
92
90
NA
NA
48
47
Washington
3
94
92
NA
NA
70
42
Howe
3
93
95
NA
NA
74
109
Hoover
3
94
97
NA
NA




5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is it perfectly acceptable for only positive slants from the District or the Magazine ?

Anonymous said...

"Acceptable" isn't the word I would use---I would say "expected" because their goal is to make themselves look as good as possible.

In my view, they would gain the public's interest, trust and participation if they would disclose areas of concern. Some great ideas have come from brainstorming.

Anonymous said...

As always the devil is in the details.

Just a point of interest since the the district and magazine were brought up here.
Both go to great extremes to dictate that people sign their names whenadressing them or submitting comments, but there isn't any problem in Gatto's Need Survey for the SAB of identifying each board member's comments as Person 1, Person 2 and so forth.
What the secrecy, there are only 15 members on the board. Why the secrecy???

Anonymous said...

Jefferson Middle School should be closed or restaffed. Washington Middle School needs help too.

Lebo Citizens said...

Jefferson MS?
Elaine