Sentence examples for measure a school from inspiring English sources

The consultants also try to measure a school's philanthropic capacity (a "capacity analysis").

Some educational analysts measure a school's effectiveness by the roles that parents play in the school.

Currently, the test covers only a sampling of students in each state, is voluntary, and is used to measure a school's standing, rather than that of an individual student.

This week's league tables will show her school to be well behind Mossbourne on raw results – but they won't show what she's up against: the "contextual value-added" measure, which used to measure a school's performance against social factors such as the numbers of pupils on free school meals, has been dropped.

Rather than consider how a school does in a variety of subjects, they primarily measure a school's success based on how its students progress on the state English and math tests, which are given to all third- through eighth-grade students every year.

The study's most disturbing finding, the authors say, is that neither boys nor girls get many tough math questions on state tests now required to measure a school district's progress under the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law.

While Washington measures a school's worth by test scores, here, on Northland Street, there's more to it.

It measures a school particularly on its internationalisation and its balance between high academic standards and business relevance.

El Camino "is witnessing first-hand the extreme measures a school district will take to wrestle back control of a successful charter school," the school's statement said.

Though energy supply carried the most significance, nine other categories were considered in measuring a school's commitment to sustainability: efficiency, food, academics, purchasing, transportation, waste management, administration, financial investments, and a catchall section titled "other initiatives".

Russell Rumberger, director of the California Dropout Research Project at UC Santa Barbara, is not a fan of measuring a school's success by its graduation rate for precisely that reason: Doing so encourages schools to lower their standards or to use misleading numbers or to find ways to get failing students out of their schools without having to count them as dropouts.