New Small Schools in N.Y.C. Post Higher Graduation Rate
Small high schools that opened in New York City in 2002 as part of a closely watched secondary school improvement effort there are graduating far more of their students on time than other city high schools, researchers have found.
At schools that are part of the
city’s New Century High Schools
initiative, 78 percent of students
graduate in four years, compared
with 58 percent at New York City
high schools on average, according
to
the final report of an evaluation
by Policy Studies Associates
Inc.
, a Washington-based research
group that has been studying the
10-year initiative since it began.
The New Century schools enroll unusually high portions of poor and minority students and students with weaker academic skills. Yet in addition to outpacing the citywide graduation rate by 20 percentage points, they also produce a graduation rate nearly 18 percentage points higher than 10 schools with demographically similar students that were chosen by researchers as a comparison...
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