Sentence examples for schools ratings from inspiring English sources

To graduate, they still had to take the state test given to 10th graders, but their scores did not affect schools' ratings, on which bonuses for school employees were based.

You can also go online to check out the schools ratings and the crime stats for the area.

At Trulia, a residential real estate Web site, the analysts are constantly crunching data — home and apartment listings, prices, school ratings, crime rates and other numbers.

The margin of error for charter school ratings was so wide that the average confidence interval around a 2009-2010 rating spanned 33 percentiles in math and 58 in English.

His advice: Ignore school ratings.

Mr. Fremer said he thought more states would move toward statistical analysis in order to maintain public confidence in test scores and school ratings.

More than a dozen states have adopted higher threshold numbers for counting these students in school ratings, so that they are frequently excluded from accountability systems.

In recent meetings with representatives of education groups, Department of Education officials have said they also want to eliminate the school ratings system built on making "adequate yearly progress" on student test scores.

Nevertheless, school ratings remain as feverishly consulted as tax tables by house buyers looking for strong schools that can put their children on the path to prestigious universities and high-paying careers.

As proof of what she calls her "bifurcated life," she has her spreadsheets of nursery school ratings (her daughter is applying) alongside fuel oil statistics compiled by the Harvard graduate she hired to perform consumer-friendly feats of number crunching.

Ms. Ritz told state school board members that this year's school ratings would be held up as a result of an independent review into the A to F grading system, and left open the possibility some of last year's grades could be changed.