San Francisco high school plummets in national ranking after eliminating merit-based admissions

[Anonymous]

San Francisco's prestigious Lowell High School was noticeably absent from a recent top 100 ranking of high schools nationwide in data from the first year since the institution adopted a short-lived lottery system for admissions.

School information and college readiness website Niche awarded slots in its annual list to institutions based on various criteria, including academics, diversity, parent and student surveys, assessments of educators and more.

"The Best Public High Schools ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users," the website reads.

Though the district's school board voted against extending the controversial lottery-based system after three progressive board members were recalled in February, Superintendent Dr. Vincent Mathews initially urged the policy to continue for the 2022-2023 school year.

The board's attempt to make the lottery policy permanent was struck down in court last November after a judge argued the school board failed to follow state law in the process.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-francisco-high-school-plummets-national-ranking-eliminating-merit-based-admissions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:San Francisco's prestigious Lowell High School was noticeably absent from a recent top 100 ranking of high schools nationwide in data from the first year since the institution adopted a short-lived lottery system for admissions.

School information and college readiness website Niche awarded slots in its annual list to institutions based on various criteria, including academics, diversity, parent and student surveys, assessments of educators and more.

"The Best Public High Schools ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users," the website reads.

Though the district's school board voted against extending the controversial lottery-based system after three progressive board members were recalled in February, Superintendent Dr. Vincent Mathews initially urged the policy to continue for the 2022-2023 school year.

The board's attempt to make the lottery policy permanent was struck down in court last November after a judge argued the school board failed to follow state law in the process.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-francisco-high-school-plummets-national-ranking-eliminating-merit-based-admissions

Fox News would misrepresent this. Lowell is now actually serving their community as opposed to a few wealthy families. There's much greater benefit to the cities residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:San Francisco's prestigious Lowell High School was noticeably absent from a recent top 100 ranking of high schools nationwide in data from the first year since the institution adopted a short-lived lottery system for admissions.

School information and college readiness website Niche awarded slots in its annual list to institutions based on various criteria, including academics, diversity, parent and student surveys, assessments of educators and more.

"The Best Public High Schools ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users," the website reads.

Though the district's school board voted against extending the controversial lottery-based system after three progressive board members were recalled in February, Superintendent Dr. Vincent Mathews initially urged the policy to continue for the 2022-2023 school year.

The board's attempt to make the lottery policy permanent was struck down in court last November after a judge argued the school board failed to follow state law in the process.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-francisco-high-school-plummets-national-ranking-eliminating-merit-based-admissions

Fox News would misrepresent this. Lowell is now actually serving their community as opposed to a few wealthy families. There's much greater benefit to the cities residents.

NP from San Francisco here. You could not be more wrong. Lowell has traditionally served a low-income immigrant community. It has changed the life trajectory of many poor kids.

It’s not serving the community at all now. The only thing it’s serving is the political ambitions of some corrupt school board members.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:San Francisco's prestigious Lowell High School was noticeably absent from a recent top 100 ranking of high schools nationwide in data from the first year since the institution adopted a short-lived lottery system for admissions.

School information and college readiness website Niche awarded slots in its annual list to institutions based on various criteria, including academics, diversity, parent and student surveys, assessments of educators and more.

"The Best Public High Schools ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users," the website reads.

Though the district's school board voted against extending the controversial lottery-based system after three progressive board members were recalled in February, Superintendent Dr. Vincent Mathews initially urged the policy to continue for the 2022-2023 school year.

The board's attempt to make the lottery policy permanent was struck down in court last November after a judge argued the school board failed to follow state law in the process.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-francisco-high-school-plummets-national-ranking-eliminating-merit-based-admissions

Fox News would misrepresent this. Lowell is now actually serving their community as opposed to a few wealthy families. There's much greater benefit to the cities residents.

NP from San Francisco here. You could not be more wrong. Lowell has traditionally served a low-income immigrant community. It has changed the life trajectory of many poor kids.

It’s not serving the community at all now. The only thing it’s serving is the political ambitions of some corrupt school board members.

This! Under the old merit-based admissions system, Lowell was traditionally nearly 40 percent FARMS.

[Anonymous]

Just another thing San Francisco has managed to ruin.

[Anonymous]

So the goal for schools should be to be nationally ranked?

Silly me. I thought it should have something to do with education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the goal for schools should be to be nationally ranked?

Silly me. I thought it should have something to do with education.

Yes, silly you. The goal of a magnet is to attract top talent, not focus on diversity.

If the kids who are attending these magnets aren't able to perform at that level as the data is showing, then it's not really serving them, nor the high achieving students who didn't make it in because of "diversity".

It's failing.

And ^^PPs are correct: a huge % of students from previous years were FARMs students. They just happen to have a specific skin color. It goes against some people's paradigm that those low income kids who perform well were not black, because apparently, if you are Asian and are high performing, then you must not be lower income.

Newsflash: the low income population of Asians in SF is fairly high.

APIs comprise 42% of San Francisco residents living in poverty, and have the highest rates of increase in poverty rates than any other racial group.

https://apicouncil.org/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the goal for schools should be to be nationally ranked?

Silly me. I thought it should have something to do with education.

Yes, silly you. The goal of a magnet is to attract top talent, not focus on diversity.

If the kids who are attending these magnets aren't able to perform at that level as the data is showing, then it's not really serving them, nor the high achieving students who didn't make it in because of "diversity".

It's failing.

And ^^PPs are correct: a huge % of students from previous years were FARMs students. They just happen to have a specific skin color. It goes against some people's paradigm that those low income kids who perform well were not black, because apparently, if you are Asian and are high performing, then you must not be lower income.

Newsflash: the low income population of Asians in SF is fairly high.

APIs comprise 42% of San Francisco residents living in poverty, and have the highest rates of increase in poverty rates than any other racial group.

https://apicouncil.org/

Inconvenient truth.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the goal for schools should be to be nationally ranked?

Silly me. I thought it should have something to do with education.
[/quote]
Yes, silly you. The [b]goal of a magnet is to attract top talent, not focus on diversity.[/b]

If the kids who are attending these magnets aren't able to perform at that level as the data is showing, then it's not really serving them, nor the high achieving students who didn't make it in because of "diversity".

It's failing.

And ^^PPs are correct: a huge % of students from previous years were FARMs students. They just happen to have a specific skin color. It goes against some people's paradigm that those low income kids who perform well were not black, because apparently, if you are Asian and are high performing, then you must not be lower income.

Newsflash: the low income population of Asians in SF is fairly high.

[quote]APIs comprise 42% of San Francisco residents living in poverty, and have the highest rates of increase in poverty rates than any other racial group.[/quote]

https://apicouncil.org/[/quote]

This x1000
TJ? Lowell is calling…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:San Francisco's prestigious Lowell High School was noticeably absent from a recent top 100 ranking of high schools nationwide in data from the first year since the institution adopted a short-lived lottery system for admissions.

School information and college readiness website Niche awarded slots in its annual list to institutions based on various criteria, including academics, diversity, parent and student surveys, assessments of educators and more.

"The Best Public High Schools ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users," the website reads.

Though the district's school board voted against extending the controversial lottery-based system after three progressive board members were recalled in February, Superintendent Dr. Vincent Mathews initially urged the policy to continue for the 2022-2023 school year.

The board's attempt to make the lottery policy permanent was struck down in court last November after a judge argued the school board failed to follow state law in the process.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-francisco-high-school-plummets-national-ranking-eliminating-merit-based-admissions

Fox News would misrepresent this. Lowell is now actually serving their community as opposed to a few wealthy families. There's much greater benefit to the cities residents.

NP from San Francisco here. You could not be more wrong. Lowell has traditionally served a low-income immigrant community. It has changed the life trajectory of many poor kids.

It’s not serving the community at all now. The only thing it’s serving is the political ambitions of some corrupt school board members.

This! Under the old merit-based admissions system, Lowell was traditionally nearly 40 percent FARMS.

This is so sad. Because of the SF School Board's political ambitions, high-achieving, low-income Asians are being pushed away for rich whites and URMs. Disgusting, and honestly, a form of class warfare.

[Anonymous]

My DD's friend who went to Lowell is half white/half Nicaraguan. He comes from a single-parent household - his mom has her own business organizing homes and his dad is a busboy or dishwasher. I was pleasantly surprised he got in bc I had never thought of him as particularly smart, just average and a really good soccer player.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the goal for schools should be to be nationally ranked?

Silly me. I thought it should have something to do with education.

Yes, silly you. The goal of a magnet is to attract top talent, not focus on diversity.

If the kids who are attending these magnets aren't able to perform at that level as the data is showing, then it's not really serving them, nor the high achieving students who didn't make it in because of "diversity".

It's failing.

And ^^PPs are correct: a huge % of students from previous years were FARMs students. They just happen to have a specific skin color. It goes against some people's paradigm that those low income kids who perform well were not black, because apparently, if you are Asian and are high performing, then you must not be lower income.

Newsflash: the low income population of Asians in SF is fairly high.

APIs comprise 42% of San Francisco residents living in poverty, and have the highest rates of increase in poverty rates than any other racial group.

https://apicouncil.org/

so being #1 is more important than educating.

got it.

AAP types are so fkced in the head.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
so being #1 is more important than educating.

got it.

AAP types are so fkced in the head.

People supporting these reforms were posting that it mattered if a kid is contributing to TJ, rather than the school should be trying to educate kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:San Francisco's prestigious Lowell High School was noticeably absent from a recent top 100 ranking of high schools nationwide in data from the first year since the institution adopted a short-lived lottery system for admissions.

School information and college readiness website Niche awarded slots in its annual list to institutions based on various criteria, including academics, diversity, parent and student surveys, assessments of educators and more.

"The Best Public High Schools ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users," the website reads.

Though the district's school board voted against extending the controversial lottery-based system after three progressive board members were recalled in February, Superintendent Dr. Vincent Mathews initially urged the policy to continue for the 2022-2023 school year.

The board's attempt to make the lottery policy permanent was struck down in court last November after a judge argued the school board failed to follow state law in the process.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/san-francisco-high-school-plummets-national-ranking-eliminating-merit-based-admissions

Fox News would misrepresent this. Lowell is now actually serving their community as opposed to a few wealthy families. There's much greater benefit to the cities residents.

Wealthy kids in SF go to private schools. Lowell is for smart kids without family money.

[Anonymous]

Teacher here- I live in a city with magnets. Many of my students attend these high performing selective schools. Most are working class and Black. If we didn't have these schools, those kids would have to attend horrible neighborhood schools where they would not get a quality education.

I am so tired of people attacking these schools. If we get rid of them, we are hurting students who come from families that can't pay for private.