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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain these rankings to me? Why is Latin so popular if it's ranked #14 in middle schools? None of these schools have 10-13 kids per class, so the student/teacher ratios seem way off.

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From their website: 
"The rankings use the same methodology for all included grade levels. For each state, schools were assessed on their shares of students who were proficient or above proficient in their mathematics and reading/language arts state assessments. Half the formula was the results themselves; the other half was the results in the context of socioeconomic demographics. In other words, the top-ranked schools are all high achieving and have succeeded at educating all their students."

...Kind of what we have been talking about on various threads the past few days. People who look at overall school performance want to see that they are doing a better job educating all of the kids, not just certain sub groups. And despite many people on here not caring about that, I think caring about how at-risk kids are doing is crucial for two reason. A) those kids are members of our communities - our kids' teammates and friends so we should care how they are doing and B) if a school does well educating at-risk kids as well as kids from other sub-groups, it probably indicates stronger overall teachers.

As for the ratio, I believe it may include special educators in the total count, and maybe other teachers as well - not just the traditional classroom teachers.

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings#:~:text=The%20elementary%20and%20middle%20school,ties%20in%20the%20overall%20score.&text=The%20math%20proficiency%20and%20reading,students'%20achievements%20on%20these%20assessments.[/quote]

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