hollywoodtone.blogspot.com Top 10 fastest-improving Ontario secondary schools
hollywoodtone.blogspot.com Top 10 fastest-improving Ontario secondary schools
Toronto - The top 10 fastest-improving secondary schools in Ontario shows a mix of geographic, student and family characteristics, a new study reveals.
The report - 'Report Card on Ontario’s Secondary Schools 2014' - ranks 740 public, Catholic (and a handful of private) secondary schools based on seven academic indicators using data from the annual provincewide tests of literacy and math managed by Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO). The report has been produced by the Fraser Institute and it follows on from a Digital Journal article from last week which showed that the amount of school choice varies widely across Canada. The Digital Journal discussed the results with Peter Cowley, Fraser Institute director of school performance studies. Peter Cowley indicated that three of the top 10 fastest-improving schools are in Toronto, including St. Patrick Catholic, which rose from an overall rating of 3.7 out of 10 in 2009 to 6.2 in 2013, despite an average parental income of $43,200—the lowest among the top 10 fastest-improving schools. Additionally, 25.4 per cent of its students have a special need and 41.3 per cent are enrolled in ESL programs. Commenting further, Cowley said: "A school like St. Patrick counters all the preconceptions about student performance. It has a relatively low parental income, and a relatively high percentage of ESL and special needs students. Yet it’s one of the fastest-improving schools in the Report Card and its overall rating now exceeds the all-schools average." The report also shows that the other top 10 fastest-improving schools are Saint-François-Xavier (French/Catholic in Sarnia), Le Sommet (French/public in Hawkesbury), St. Mary’s (English/Catholic in Toronto), La Salle (English/public in Kingston), Bloor (English/public in Toronto), Monseigneur-Bruyère (French/Catholic in London), Nouvelle-Alliance (French/Catholic in Barrie), L'Héritage (French/public in Cornwall) and Gabriel-Dumont (French/public in London). More broadly, of the 740 ranked schools in this year’s Report Card, 69 schools improved their overall rating from the previous year. Peter Cowley said that the results can be accessed from a special website. "Our website provides parents and educators with objective information about school performance—information that’s hard to find anywhere else, which makes it the go-to source for measuring academic performance and an invaluable resource for parents who are interested in their child’s education." The Fraser Institute is an independent non-partisan research and educational organization based in Canada. The organization runs several inquiries into education and health. The basis of the body is that, in order to improve public institutions such as schools and hospitals, their performance needs to be measured.
hollywoodtone.blogspot.com Top 10 fastest-improving Ontario secondary schools