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Add family status to that-single parent vs married as well.
Posted on: 2015/3/16 19:46
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I'd love to see some database savvy person take this data and correlate it to each school's family income, parental education, % immigrants, and per student spending. Bet there'd be a lot to talk about as to just what choices vs demographics makes a high achieving school.
Posted on: 2015/3/16 18:24
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The definition of magnet can apply to a program, such as Visual and Performing Arts, or entire school. It simply mean that the school/program draws from across an entire city and there are admissions standards. Hunter College high school, Bronx Science and Stuyvesant are considered magnet schools too.
Posted on: 2015/3/16 16:59
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Talking of exhaust fumes, Chatham High is the usual location for the North Jersey Cars and Croissants meet-next one is scheduled for tomorrow, weather permitting, at 8:30 pm. If you like classic/exotic/sports cars it's an incredible event-great for photographers, great to walk kids around looking at the wide variety of cars.
Posted on: 2015/3/14 14:35
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Common core or lack, and exhaust fumes, killed the statistician's brain cells.
Posted on: 2015/3/14 4:22
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My traditional understanding of what a magnet is: specific programs or groups of classes. To my knowledge, classifying an entire school as magnet seems strange, unless they're now just lumping schools that you have to test into as magnet.
Dickinson has a science magnet that performs as well as McNair. Snyder has an arts magnet, Lincoln has social sciences, Ferris has business.
Posted on: 2015/3/14 4:04
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Yes, putting in magnets is stupid, especially when they usually exclude them. I recall one survey gave McNair a bye on that because their SAT's were no better than a typical suburban regular HS. Last time I looked at the USN&WR listing, they actually had McNair categorized as not a magnet. Good school, best we have, my son is doing great, but it's not "best in state". As for that 76%, gotta be an error, it's in the high 90's, but take that as indicating how full of errors the whole rating game is.
Posted on: 2015/3/14 2:56
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I take all these types of rankings with a grain of salt, although it's easy to see, year after year, what the high performers are. Putting magnet schools into the general mix is also silly, as they cherry pick high performing students to enter as well.
Posted on: 2015/3/14 1:24
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How can a school go from #2 to #62 in one year? Unless an asteroid hit it, I don't know how credible these rankings are.
Posted on: 2015/3/14 1:12
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I don't understand the post-secondary enrollment rate as it applies to McNair. Every single student in both my sons classes went on to college or military academies. 76%? That cannot be right.
Posted on: 2015/3/14 1:05
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The Top High Schools 2014: Chatham Takes the Top SpotNew Jersey Monthly - By Ken Schlager | August 11, 2014 One school missing from the top of the chart is McNair Academic, the renowned magnet high school in Jersey City. McNair had held the number-2 spot in the last three rankings, but fell to number 62 this year. While McNair students are still among the best in the state as far as SAT and HSPA scores are concerned, the school was pulled down the chart by its post-secondary enrollment rate of 76 percent—far below the state’s best-performing schools. Read more: http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns-s ... he-top-high-schools-2014/
Posted on: 2015/3/13 23:38
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