Only 60% of Somers High School grads are "college-ready", even though over ninety percent graduate. Those are some of the findings in the June 14 report issued by the NYS Board of Regents. Somers beats the state-wide average by a huge margin, but its college readiness percent is in the bottom half of public schools in Westchester County. Seven high schools in Westchester County scored over 80% on the college-readiness standard. Locally, Carmel High School is at 60%, Fox Lane, 69%, John Jay, 78% and North Salem, 78%. Mayor Bloomberg of New York City said of that city’s rates: “There is no percent under 100 percent that we are satisfied with.”
According to the Board of Regents, "Students who graduate high school – but do so with a score below 80 on a math Regents exam and below 75 on the English exam – are likely to require remediation in college."
This standard -- percent of students scoring at least 75 on English and 80 on math Regent exams -- was once referred to as the "college and career ready" graduation rate. The Board's new terminology -- perhaps designed not to offend school boards but to keep parents and taxpayers in the dark -- is “ELA/Math APM” with APM meaning "aspirational performance measure".
The Board of Regents press release of June 14 is here.
Data for Westchester County schools is tabulated by LoHud.com here. State-wide data and by schools is available at the NYSED web site under Graduation Rate Data - June 14, 2011
Read the following news stories: June 14 in the New York Times, College-Readiness Low Among State Graduates, Data Show and June 14 in LoHud.com, N.Y. graduates not ready for college, according to new state standards.
See our earlier posts on this topic, Are Grads Ready For College? Somers High School Report Card - English Regents Exam [March 15, 2011] and Are Grads Ready For College? Somers High School Report Card - Math Regents Exam [March 30, 2011].
LINKS:
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/irs/pressRelease/20110614/GradRatesRelease-FINAL.2011.pdf
http://www.lohud.com/assets/htm/BH175618614.HTM
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/irs/pressRelease/20110614/home.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/nyregion/37-of-new-york-graduates-meet-college-readiness-standard.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=sharonotterman&adxnnlx=1308421962-fqboLcW2IT/+7Akbx3nLRw
http://www.LoHud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011106150340
http://somersspectator.blogspot.com/2011/03/somers-high-school-report-card-english.html
http://somersspectator.blogspot.com/2011/03/are-grads-ready-for-college-somers-high.html
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