Long Island School District Rankings (Huntington, Brentwood: colleges, stats, design)
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Really? I never heard it was one of the best, but I never heard it was bad either.
Yep. We have a few friends that live in that district and they rave about it. They moved there because of the rating. Ya know, I sometimes wonder about these scores because if you go to a specific school's report card, the scores on the report card don't seem to correspond with the scores above. I find it amazing that the schools with such low scores are still open yet in NYC they're quickly shutting down schools. But that's a whole other topic
Would be interesting to see the average tax burden as a correlation, wouldn't it? Appears some are getting way more for their dollar than others, both tax-wise and housing cost-wise.
I dunno. No matter how I try to pull up Carey's score, whether it be by NYS or Great Schools or even a new article, all I see are the scores for 7th and 8th grade.
Special needs children also change these numbers. If there is a solid special needs program in a school with alot of children enrolled, it can throw the numbers off and portray a district as lower then what it acutally should be. You might have a good program for them but very few might go on to college. Does that make a district worse? Of course not. It makes the district better for offering those services.
carey is hurt by the lack of #s going on to 4 yr colleges; lot of future union guys which there is absolutely nothing wrong with.
That's not what I'm concerned about. Why can't I see scores for grades 9-12? Everywhere I look I only see 7th and 8th grade.
Personally, it's not just the school that makes the student. It's also what the student brings to the table. If students don't apply themselves or have parents that are not involved in their studies then it doesn't matter how great or terrible the school district is.
Special needs children also change these numbers. If there is a solid special needs program in a school with alot of children enrolled, it can throw the numbers off and portray a district as lower then what it acutally should be. You might have a good program for them but very few might go on to college. Does that make a district worse? Of course not. It makes the district better for offering those services.
You are correct. I should have noted in the first post that I only used the 'General Education' Students column. This list does not include special needs students scores into the mix.
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Originally Posted by twingles
Would be interesting to see the average tax burden as a correlation, wouldn't it? Appears some are getting way more for their dollar than others, both tax-wise and housing cost-wise.
A good resource to view ROI is here (http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/01/educational_productivity/ - broken link)<
This map tool uses Elementary School data + JHS/HS data I believe.
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Originally Posted by bellakin123
That's not what I'm concerned about. Why can't I see scores for grades 9-12? Everywhere I look I only see 7th and 8th grade.
Personally, it's not just the school that makes the student. It's also what the student brings to the table. If students don't apply themselves or have parents that are not involved in their studies then it doesn't matter how great or terrible the school district is.
H Frank Carey is in the Sewanhaka Central School District. That's why you're not seeing it under Franklin Square. Go to Sewanhaka and pull up Carey HS. Kunk10 is right. The biggest thing that hurt Carey is only 59% going on to 4-year College and 54% with advanced regents designation.
H Frank Carey HS* (Sewanhaka) - 96 59 59 95 54 54 98 65 79 25 37 721 72.1
I agree with you on the other stuff. Extracurriculars, sports, parent involvement, electives, etc are all things that add to the quality of a school.
carey parents are very involved, especially in recent years when people who moved in were more of the mind that college is a must.
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