The phrase "achieving schools" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to schools that are successful in meeting educational goals or standards.
Example: "The report highlighted the strategies employed by achieving schools to improve student performance and engagement."
Alternatives: "successful schools" or "high-performing schools".
It has been suggested to me that the ambition of those involved was only to create high achieving schools reflecting the communities they serve, following the wishes of the majority of parents.
Today students and staff at Carshalton Boys Sports College are privileged to be participating in one of the momentous occasions in the history of the school, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and chef Jamie Oliver are visiting us to celebrate our journey from one of the lowest achieving schools in the country to one of the most improved.
We find that disadvantaged parents in both cities are less likely to choose high achieving schools.
As schools are shown below to value low experience and no experience teachers about equally, low achieving schools do not benefit much from the policy.
The Stephen Perse Foundation, one of the country's highest achieving schools, has been experimenting with digital learning, with every pupil having their own iPad.
b) Increasing the desirability of low achieving schools to mid-career teachers by 20% leads to positive effects, with more teachers of all experience levels ending up at these schools.
A low achieving school will search 80% of the time for teachers who have at least 4 years of education, regardless of whether they originate from high or low-achieving schools.
While mid and high level experience teachers focus search on high-achieving schools, teachers with low experience spend about 36% of the time searching for a match with a low achieving school.
6) The cleverest students from the lowest-achieving schools are guaranteed a degree place.
Last March, the state put the high school on its watch list of lowest-achieving schools.
It is one of the highest-achieving schools in the region.
