The 2014 Children at Risk school rankings for Texas are out.
Their methodology is open to criticism, but at least it is consistent throughout the state. You can read it here.
They ranked 1193 high schools with 1193 being the lowest performer and 1 being the highest according to their system. A rank below 597 (1-596) places a high school in the top half of the state.
Their results for our El Paso county schools are:
Congratulations to those involved with our “A”, “B”, and “C” schools.
As for the rest,
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Are we supposed to also congratulate those with a C- ?
I wish you had been my parent. A grade of C was a point of shame in our home.
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Heavily deperndent on test score data…they do not have data for several HS in the area, including Canutillo Early College and EPISD Early College. If you believe this data, which you probably should not, but if you do, it is a good indication that money leads to student success. Almost all of the top 10 are magnet, high cost campuses with the #1 being a BIG cost high school in Dallas.
Money breeds success.
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DDawg: The socio-economic status of the parents = success, not the amount of money put into the system. All schools receive close to the same amount of money within their district, with Bowie and Jefferson probably receiving a bit more. After volunteering at Bowie for more than 4 years, I wonder how that school can ever be brought up to par. It’s not that the children do not have ability but rather that their parents (more likely, their mother because so many of the students are raised in homes without a father) and their home life have not emphasized academic success. The students are also influenced by the entire student body. For example, I found that very, very few of the students read any books at all and never have dinner table conversations about current events or social issues. I’m not sure how we can correct the issues that cause the students to under achieve. It appears to be a general failure of the social structure in which the children are raised.
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Well said. David Deming’s research 30 years ago into business operations applies to education as well. You can pour resources into schools/businesses but if there are systemic weaknesses only one thing will produce the desired results — fixing those weaknesses.
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Must be nice when you can cheat by picking and choosing only the cream of the crop students and then get ranked tops in the city! This is not much different from Garcia’s “hiding” the poor performing students after they’re enrolled, only Silva does it up front by it’s selective admissions strategy. It’s still cheating to me and at the very least it should not be eligible for comparison to the other schools.
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You can weed out your garden by pulling the weeds after they grow out a bit, or you can use one of those preventive fertilizers that doesn’t let them grow in the first place. Which one do you suppose Silva uses to get its stellar ratings year after year?
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For some reason, my comment is no longer posted. Am I being censored or maybe just doing something incorrectly? Mamboman
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You have not been censored.
Brutus
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