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Fraser Grades schools –part2	Local Results
	(A challenge for us to do a more meaningful report card locally?)

(above cut form Fraser Institute report and pasted here)

Critique below

But as you go thru these results remember that the samples were too small to be taken seriously as averages (<30)--- still there might be some worth here too

-- I have placed the full ‘scores’ at end file

You wouldn’t blame the doctors for having the highest rate of diabetes in province here – so why blame the schools/ teachers for low scores?—(I have paraphrased a speaker from audience)

Background – see my poverty report for PR; and the EDI school report ‘at risk’

When you realize Prince Rupert area is poorest in BC you would predict lowest scores

While it is hard to judge how true this is for say Vancouver schools we can look at local results and see they rank as do the socio-economics of the surrounding neighbourhoods --- better off areas scored higher in the school results etc ---- Cowley knew this too but maintained a better predictor was the parent’s education level – rather than income --- true – one expects kids whose parents were star basketball players to have good athletic kids

How valid are comparisons between schools?

School	ESL %	special needs %	parents educ	GR4 enrollment	Tests not written %	Rank of 1009	last 5 years of 897
Annunciation	0.4	n/a	13.7	26	1.7	336	231
Westview	8.6	9.1	14.1	24	8.9	528	407
Kanata	28.5	9.5	13.7	20	13.9	917	822
Lax Kxeen	20.6	12.5	12.7	28	13.4	933	688
Pineridge	27.8	14.4	13.7	19	5.4	933	776
Conrad	34.3	12.7	13.2	23	20.5	959	873
Roosevelt Park	63.5	26.0	12.1	24	25.7	1007	892

CRITIQUE

Here is an excellent Critique of Fraser Institute Report Cards from Tyee done in 2003 ---

Fraser Institute Propaganda

Message: Private schools do a better job teaching: thus privatize all/ most schools

Parents ‘choose’ --- thus are Consumers not Citizens

Hidden agenda: poor ethnic and handicapped should be segregated from WASP families even more than housing markets are able to

Rich/ better off should be subsidized by poor --- tax$ siphoned off to pay for their exclusivity

ESL & ‘special needs’

As the table above shows --- schools that have non-standard populations (English as second language—or ‘special needs (but gifted is a ‘special needs’ too) – tend not to score well on these standardized tests --- Big surprise

So if Annunciation would allow poor ESL and special needs students in as ‘Affirmative Action’ (scholarship) one could expect a more usable comparison of data

(I had to convert files so some mistakes could have happened – check with originals

School	Grade	subject	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Annunciation	Gr 4 avg score:	Reading	521	516	481	480	518	0.27
Annunciation	Gr 4 avg score:	Writing	n/a	605	545	491	521	542
Annunciation	Gr 4 avg score:	numerancy	491	504	495	514	530	0.06
Annunciation	Gr 7 avg score:	Reading	500	506	564	508	558	0.04
Annunciation	Gr 7 avg score:	Writing	N/a	596	612	516	628	544
Annunciation	Gr 7 avg score:	numerancy	535	522	565	504	511	0.1
Annunciation	Rating		7.4	7.9	6.9	6.4	7.6	7
Westview	Gr 4 avg score:	Reading	521	563	428	596	531	0.37
Westview	Gr 4 avg score:	Writing	n/a	488	486	486	518	559
Westview	Gr 4 avg score:	numerancy	528	583	485	659	604	0.51
Westview	Gr 7 avg score:	Reading	482	556	530	498	525	0.01
Westview	Gr 7 avg score:	Writing	558	485	463	525	534	—
Westview	Gr 7 avg score:	numerancy	460	563	511	466	505	0.16
Westview	Rating		6.6	8.1	4.7	5.3	7.6	6.1
Kanata	Gr 4 avg score:	Reading	485	454	470	486	488	-1.14
Kanata	Gr 4 avg score:	Writing	n/a	646	469	549	476	495
Kanata	Gr 4 avg score:	numerancy	472	478	483	521	476	-0.57
Kanata	Gr 7 avg score:	Reading	434	481	471	462	429	-0.42
Kanata	Gr 7 avg score:	Writing	449	511	482	438	500	—
Kanata	Gr 7 avg score:	numerancy	459	452	469	469	429	-0.02
Kanata	Rating		3.5	5.3	4.3	4.8	2.0	3.7
Lax Kxeen	Gr 4 avg score:	Reading	n/a	506	457	491	443	-0.3
Lax Kxeen	Gr 4 avg score:	Writing	n/a	540	512	500	457	506
Lax Kxeen	Gr 4 avg score:	numerancy	n/a	485	485	524	449	-0.4
Lax Kxeen	Gr 7 avg score:	Reading	n/a	489	488	478	515	-0.38
Lax Kxeen	Gr 7 avg score:	Writing	n/a	656	473	529	525	486
Lax Kxeen	Gr 7 avg score:	numerancy	n/a	492	498	488	533	0.03
Lax Kxeen	Rating		n/a	7.2	5.2	6.4	3.9	3.5
Pineridge	Gr 4 avg score:	Reading	489	460	473	468	458	-0.17
Pineridge	Gr 4 avg score:	Writing	n/a	533	495	513	481	556
Pineridge	Gr 4 avg score:	numerancy	509	477	478	501	447	-0.01
Pineridge	Gr 7 avg score:	Reading	438	475	478	529	492	-0.71
Pineridge	Gr 7 avg score:	Writing	472	484	464	604	446	—
Pineridge	Gr 7 avg score:	numerancy	430	489	496	518	489	-0.72
Pineridge	Rating		4.8	4.7	4.8	5.6	3.9	3.5
Conrad	Gr 4 avg score:	Reading	446	462	429	472	472	0.01
Conrad	Gr 4 avg score:	Writing	n/a	500	465	500	490	463
Conrad	Gr 4 avg score:	numerancy	439	457	443	491	508	0.06
Conrad	Gr 7 avg score:	Reading	448	409	462	491	561	-0.67
Conrad	Gr 7 avg score:	Writing	n/a	386	491	485	550	452
Conrad	Gr 7 avg score:	numerancy	443	400	426	482	414	-0.45
Conrad	Rating		3.5	0.5	2.6	5.1	4.9	3.1
Roosevelt Park	Gr 4 avg score:	Reading	419	469	403	478	440	-1.11
Roosevelt Park	Gr 4 avg score:	Writing	n/a	528	497	483	512	456
Roosevelt Park	Gr 4 avg score:	numerancy	401	454	407	567	437	-1.07
Roosevelt Park	Gr 7 avg score:	Reading	373	427	449	418	452	-0.58
Roosevelt Park	Gr 7 avg score:	Writing	n/a	487	480	460	471	476
Roosevelt Park	Gr 7 avg score:	numerancy	377	418	417	457	423	-0.9
Roosevelt Park	Rating		0.9	3.2	2.3	3.9	2.4	0

Created by LG on May 21, 2006

Last updated on Saturday, May 27, 2006

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Local Results

When you realize Prince Rupert area is poorest in BC you would predict lowest scores

ESL %

CRITIQUE

Fraser Institute Propaganda