There, the average grade enrollment in 1998 was 83, but there were only 66 students in the 12th grade.
If there are 400 students in a high school with four grades, the average grade enrollment is 100.
But the superintendents say the number that gets reported is the percentage of the average grade enrollment that passes, because it is one number, and simpler to report.
She'd tended bar, waitressed, owned another motel, substitute-taught at the Cooke City School (kindergarten through eighth grade; enrollment, six), and been the backup postmaster.
The State Department of Education began using average grade enrollment 10 years ago, when only about 30percentt of the high school students in the state took the Regents tests.
With a pre-kindergarten through 12th grade enrollment of just 56 students, Marathon I.S.D. is one of the smallest districts in the state.
This little mathematical oddity is produced by a factor known as the average grade enrollment, which is, as the name suggests, the total number of students in a school divided by the number of grades in that school.
Mr. Ray said the state will begin using a more sophisticated data reporting system -- one that accounts for the nuances superintendents say the average grade enrollment misses -- in three years.
But in some school districts, you're going to look at the data and say, 'How can we make ourselves look good?' " By 2003, when the state will require all students to pass the Regents, grading by average grade enrollment may become a moot point.
For context, from 1992 to 1997, Colombia operated a secondary school voucher program, a central goal of which was to increase secondary (6th 11th grade) enrollment rates by using private sector participation to ease public sector capacity constraints that mostly affected the poor.
Our research indicated that the majority of parents sending their children to CFC school enrolled them on time -- only 7percentt enrolled their children later than the age of 6 (the legal age of first grade enrollment).
