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Date Posted: 09:28:18 02/09/03 Sun
Author: rujane
Subject: Re: NJ SCHOOL REPORT CARD
In reply to: talkonline 's message, "NJ SCHOOL REPORT CARD" on 11:28:19 02/06/03 Thu


Interesting article in today's (Sunday's) Press about the way statistics are calculated to camouflage the dropout rates. They tracked an incoming freshman class at Atlantic City High School which had about 775 kids, the graduating class four years later was 400+ Some mobility (transfers, etc) might account for a small percentage a reduction, but there are usually incoming to balance it out. This is nearly a 50% attrition rate! For the same period, Ocean City's graduating class had six fewer kids than its freshman class. The article stated that the school claimed a 93.5% graduation rate because it only calculated that on the basis of the number of seniors who graduated, not the number of that class from freshman year up.

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[> [> Really good point!- What is going on?-- ACHS should have to answer for this! -- talkonline, 09:54:24 02/09/03 Sun


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