Oooh, and it's already done. ita ! is quick on the draw.

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Here's the blurb on the front of Emmett's high school (Albany High):

We may all live within one square mile, but the Albany High School student body is one of the most diverse in the state. Where else can you find a population that is 39% Asian, 35% White, 13% Hispanic, 7% African-American... and with 95% of all students going on to four-year or community college? The dropout rate is less than 2%! Albany High students love this place and it shows.

I hadn't realized we placed so many kids in college. I'm not entirely surprised since it's a top rated school and academically challenging and it's a very upper middle class neighborhood, but that's still pretty high.

Covering all my bases, Jesse. I even changed my handle on another site.

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That's a strong college-going rate. I'd like to see the 4-year/2-year going rate broken down by race and socio-economic status, but that's my kneejerk, researcher reaction.

I think it sounds like a good mix and a good school.

My last school -- the one from hell -- bragged about a 99% acceptance rate into college, but didn't say whether it was tech schools, AA programs, or 4 years, and didn't break it down to kids who actually WENT to college. They had to take a class which was all about filling out apps (not a bad thing) and get accepted. For the marketing, ya know. I think only about 50% actually went to college, which ain't bad for an urban-core school, but they really skewed the numbers to get funding for their shitatstic adminsitration.

I've been keeping in contact with a couple of ex-co-workers there, and evidently, they let all the English staff go, terminated one science teacher the last day of school, and told another one, who had been told he'd be coming back, that he wouldn't -- in July -- and are letting a middle-school teacher not certified take over bio and physical science for high school. If she passes the PRAXIS. Although she;ll still be teaching if she doesn't; she'll just have to take it again. @@

And they implemented a new school-wide disciplinary policy aimed at elementary students for the whole school, which is K-12.

The super is a control freak, only taught 2 years of 2nd grade, and knows balls-all about high school. I am well out of that clusterfuck.

I'd like to see the 4-year/2-year going rate broken down by race and socio-economic status, but that's my kneejerk, researcher reaction.

I bet those numbers are findable. There are so many drill-down deets and breakdowns on public schools these days. At least in SF and the Bay Area where you have to research and choose your school.

My high school had similar dropout and college numbers, but we were at least 85% white, and most of the rest Asian.

95% is amazing. My high school achieved close to 100% by encouraging people not going to university to switch schools at 16. Cheating, but effective. *Everyone* intended to go to university. It was like a higher education mill. Obviously I have nothing against higher education, but anyone who wanted professional training instead of a degree was strongly looked down upon.

Side business: Oxbridge. They were fucking obsessed. I fought against a lot of things in high school, and won everything except avoiding an Oxbridge application. They just wore me down and broke me. I dropped social studies and French and Christian assembly, but I couldn't get out of applying to Oxford. I'm still kinda mad.

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