Nearly all Somers High School passed the Algebra Regents Exam last year. However, only 25% were “solidly competent” to do college work in that subject, but 98% planned to attend a two- or four-year college. Other local schools did much worse with Carmel and Fox Lane High Schools in the teens for being college ready. John Jay and Rye High Schools scored 36% and 30% respectively, but that is far below the percent of students planning to go college. See the charts below for scores in Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry.
As explained in our March 5, 2011 post, state education officials recently concluded that passing the Regents exam does not mean a student is prepared for college or a well paying career. SUNY campuses typically use a score of 85 “as a mark of “solid competence”, below 75 is a mark of ‘inadequately prepared’ ”. The issue is not limited to Somers but state-wide, even in wealthy school districts. The Board of Regents is discussing what to do with this data and may issue guidelines later this month.
The “*” indicates that the Carmel and Fox Lane data on those subjects includes General Students and Students With Disabilities.
Read the March 5 post, Are Grads Ready For College? Somers High School Report Card - English Regents Exam
Read the New York Times story, Most New York Students Are Not College-Ready.
Click on the link to read, A New Standard of Proficiency: College Readiness Board of Regents July 19, 2010.
School reports for individual schools in New York State are available at nyStart, New York State School and District Report Cards for School Year 2009-2010. Summary data is available at LoHud.com.
LINKS:
http://somersspectator.blogspot.com/2011/03/somers-high-school-report-card-english.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/nyregion/08regents.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all
https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb/Home.do?year=2010
http://usny.nysed.gov/A_New_Proficiency_Public_Version07_22.pdf
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