Only about 20percentt of children in elementary and middle schools who were classified as limited English-proficient scored at or above their grade level on citywide math tests in their native language.
Another 12 passed with "proficient" scores between 200 and 249.
In New York, the number of "proficient" scores dropped by about 30 percentage points in 2013, its first year of testing.
Sam Buntrock, who also directed the show's world premiere at the white-hot Menier Chocolate Factory in London in 2007, has staged the musical with buoyant, airy invention, and the proficient score is mostly well sung by a talented cast.
Only 18percentt of black students and 28percentt of Hispanic students achieved proficient scores or higher, compared to 56percentt of Asian-American and white students.
The formula compared the level of low-income students who receive proficient scores on assessments at a given school to the scores of students on that assessment statewide.
Haley's research showed that the Colts were especially proficient at scoring points on their first drives, and that they score around 28 points a game.
Neighboring New York, for example, has its own Pearson-designed CCSS-aligned exam, and the percentage of students scoring proficient or highly proficient was cut essentially in half to roughly 35percentt for both math and English".
In the tests given last spring, of the 86,861 fourth graders who took the language arts/literacy portion, about 57percentt were proficient, 3.9percentt were scored advanced proficient and 39percentt were in the lowest category.
When that happens, the portion of students scoring "proficient" on state tests climbs.
In New York, the percentage of students scoring proficient in eighth grade reading on the state's own tests rose by three points from 2003 to 2005, while the percentage scoring proficient dropped two points during the same period on the federal tests, the Fordham study showed.
