Now let’s look at how the money spent per pupil and SAT score results chalk up.
| CAMPUS | SPENDING PER PUPIL | %ECONOMICALLY | Average SAT |
| Riverside Hs | $8,557 | 87.1 | 750 |
| J M Hanks Hs | $8,086 | 67.7 | 823 |
| Anthony H S | $7,926 | 100.0 | 934 |
| Fabens H S | $7,899 | 90.2 | 849 |
| Irvin H S | $7,463 | 86.9 | 881 |
| San Elizario H S | $7,234 | 90.0 | 851 |
| Bowie H S | $7,173 | 96.4 | 826 |
| Parkland Hs | $7,169 | 76.3 | 774 |
| Clint H S | $7,152 | 78.5 | 831 |
| Jefferson H S | $6,864 | 90.3 | 865 |
| Ysleta Hs | $6,800 | 87.9 | 739 |
| El Paso H S | $6,671 | 74.4 | 909 |
| Andress H S | $6,658 | 61.6 | 818 |
| Mountain View H S | $6,295 | 90.6 | 842 |
| Horizon H S | $6,259 | 93.8 | 846 |
| Del Valle Hs | $6,235 | 88.2 | 789 |
| Burges H S | $6,120 | 70.1 | 976 |
| Eastwood Hs | $5,979 | 58.4 | 874 |
| Austin H S | $5,689 | 80.6 | 877 |
| El Dorado H S | $5,662 | 69.6 | 858 |
| Bel Air Hs | $5,648 | 79.7 | 809 |
| Silva Health Magnet | $5,633 | 53.4 | 1034 |
| Tornillo H S | $5,588 | 93.5 | 801 |
| Americas H S | $5,514 | 58.3 | 876 |
| Chapin H S | $5,467 | 61.0 | 954 |
| Canutillo H S | $5,442 | 71.2 | 833 |
| Socorro H S | $5,440 | 85.7 | 856 |
| Montwood H S | $5,422 | 55.9 | 883 |
| Franklin H S | $5,416 | 38.7 | 979 |
| Coronado H S | $4,997 | 41.9 | 1007 |
What is going on at Ysleta? Jefferson scores 126 points higher on the SAT than Ysleta and spends only 1% more.
If poor kids do worse on SAT scores how can Burges score 102 points higher than Eastwood?
Look at your school on the chart. Find another one that is close in the spending category or in the disadvantaged category. How do their test scores compare?
Then we have Franklin that has fewer poor kids than Coronado, gets 10% more money and yet scores below Coronado.
We’ve got some schools where we are spending a lot of money and not seeing the results.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Your attempt to correlate spending with SAT averages of area schools is simply oversimplified. You also jump from your data and make another conclusion comparing “poor” schools vs “rich” schools. First of all, the school spending and poor or rich are very different animals. Spending varies as to how it is spent at each school, among other things. Also, how you determine poor vs rich is not explained other than your trying to compare neighborshoods-at-a -glance? You give us no data on the population demographics and family income and education levels nor on the educational programs and amenities at each shool. Do you have it? Secondly, and obviously there are many other factors one must consider…something like those who try to correlate cancer with smoking. Nice try, anyway!
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Mamboman,
I appreciate your thoughts. No, I am not trying to do an in depth analysis, nor am I trying to draw any conclusions.
Much of what you say has validity.
I am simply trying to point out that our schools need our help. The results are disappointing.
If you can shed some light on this I think that we would all be grateful.
Brutus
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I was thinking that in looking at these numbers, one should consider that the average SAT scores could be higher at a school with a high percentage of economically disadvantaged simply because a large number of those economically disadvantaged at that school did not take the SAT. Similar to a school with a high number of LEP students could have high TAKS scores and be comparable to another school with low numbers of LEP students if that school with the high number of LEP students prohibited them from taking the test.
In that light, I think it would be interesting to find out how many students who took the SAT were considered economically disadvantaged, not just look at the total number of economically disadvantaged at the entire school. If all students took the SAT, then Brutus’s analysis would be correct -and still may be – but without knowing if a large percentage of economically disadvantaged students took the test or not you really can’t say that “Franklin has fewer poor kids than Coronado and yet scores below Coronado” and infer that one causes the other when we really don’t know how many of the poor students took the test. For whatever reason a small percentage of the economically disadvantaged students at Coronado could have conceivably not taken the test.
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