School Performance

Digging around in the 2004-05 New Jersey School Report Card database, I ran across some interesing data that I thought I would share. First, the bad news. The Access database is as poorly organized as always, so extracting information from the data is going to be a long, hard slog.

But, there's also good news, and in a surprising location. I stumbled into the vocational school districts while looking to confirm the trends from last year's post on this subject. In the vocational districts, about 3600 students take the High School Proficiency Assessment each year. Their performance has been increasing steadily since the 2002-03 school year, as shown in the table below:

Subject	YEAR	Fail	Proficient	AP
Lang	0203	25%	61%	13%
Lang	0304	23%	63%	13%
Lang	0405	19%	62%	18%
Math	0203	45%	37%	17%
Math	0304	38%	39%	22%
Math	0405	29%	46%	25%

What's causing this improved performance? Hard to say, but ... could this be measurable impact from the No Child Left Behind Act?

Tags: New Jersey, Education