From Fitzgerald to Twitchell, and at all the schools between them, economic and social indicators have a hefty impact on how a school and its students do. With rare exception, school ratings are higher districtwide when the surrounding neighborhood has a higher median household income and more college-educated residents, regardless of whether parents have degrees. Schools do progressively worse when their neighborhoods have higher rates of high school-only educated residents, families falling below the poverty line, and minorities.
Caucasian students outnumber Hispanics four to one, which is the exception in the Hispanic-dominated district. From Clark County Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky to multiple associate superintendents, none deny the link binding socioeconomics to school performance. The findings come as no surprise, they said. The page analysis commissioned by the U.
Department of Education found that student backgrounds have a greater influence on academic performance than school resources, which indicates that spending more on teaching disadvantaged students has little effect on their academic performance.
But all the external factors can be overcome, he said. A school in a poor, uneducated, minority-dominated neighborhood can achieve the same success as students in an affluent area. Barton offered as proof Hancock Elementary, near Decatur and Charleston boulevards. The school is a rare example of what Barton would like to see districtwide.
More than 90 percent of its students live in poverty. Minority students outnumber Caucasians four to one. But about 85 percent of students were at grade level in math and reading last year, according to state tests. And the link between socioeconomics and schools in the Las Vegas Valley remains strong.
As magnet schools that attract students from across the county, few neighborhood students attend them. From the time the morning bell sounds, the differences between Fitzgerald and Twitchell are apparent. Twitchell students begin classes immediately. Fitzgerald students funnel into the cafeteria for breakfast at no charge. The added burden takes its toll on teachers, said Forsberg, not faulting the community or parents who often are struggling to get by.
The school also offers parents GED classes and English and writing classes. Corpuz, a Fitzgerald teacher for nine years, is a rarity at the campus where only about half the teachers return each fall. She said that with good teaching, Fitzgerald students can do as well as a those at Twitchell. None of the traditional high schools earned five stars, and only Boulder City, Coronado, Indian Springs and Moapa Valley high schools earned four stars.
One of her students can read only three words per minute. She has an even higher expectation for them, even though most would have to make leaps to get there: words per minute. It worked last year. More than 80 percent of her students read at grade level at the end of She credits her persistence to independent reading, making each student read at home for 20 minutes daily.
For proof, they must keep a reading log that also shows whether they comprehend what they read. Corpuz sets clear expectations for her Fitzgerald third-graders on day one, explaining what they are doing, will do and why.
She splits them into small groups with both high and low performers and then provides individual attention as needed. Abacherli achieves the same order in her Twitchell kindergarten class by the third week.
She, too, must construct it. The program is supported by 68 percent of Nevadans and was helping more than 2, low-income, mostly minority children before Assembly Majority Leader Jason Frierson and his fellow Democrats decided to gut it during the last legislative session. Much like the farcical evaluation systems in place at CCSD, that policy decision also reflects politicians catering to needs of the adults in the system, rather than the children.
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