Rewriting History

On Friday, the DOE announced changes to the much-maligned grading system for elementary and middle schools. Whereas last year more than 80 percent of schools received an A on their progress reports, this year the amount of schools that will be able to receive an A grade will be capped at 25 percent. The full breakdown is as follows:

Grade	Percentile Rank (out of all schools)
A	Above 75%
B	Between 45% and 75%
C	Between 15% and 45%
D	Between 5% and 15%
F	Below 5%

Curious to see how this would have affected last year’s scores, we applied the curve to the 2008-2009 Progress Report data available on the DOE’s website. Take a look and see who would have sunk and who would have stayed on top. Of particular note:

1. 308 schools would have fallen from an A to a C
2. Every single one of the six middle schools that the DOE has proposed for closure would have received     an F grade (they are highlighted in red in the spreadsheet)
3. 28 schools would have gone from a B to an F. They are, in descending order of raw score:

·         I.S. X303 Leadership & Community Service

·         The Young Scholars Academy of The Bronx

·         P.S. 095 The Gravesend

·         Satellite Three

·         Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School

·         Brooklyn Collegiate: A College Board School

·         Young Women's Leadership School

·         P.S. 309 George E. Wibecan

·         P.S. 102 Jacques Cartier

·         Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change

·         The Michael J. Petrides School

·         Beginning With Children Charter School

·         P.S. 289 George V. Brower

·         Future Leaders Institute Charter School

·         P.S. 015 Roberto Clemente

·         Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice

·         P.S. 165 Ida Posner

·         P.S. 030 Queens

·         P.S. 132 Garret A. Morgan

·         P.S. 282 Park Slope

·         Harlem Children's Zone/Promise Academy II

·         Harlem Children's Zone/Promise Academy Charter School

·         P.S. 147 Isaac Remsen

·         P.S. 260 Breuckelen

·         East Bronx Academy for the Future

·         P.S./I.S. 137 Rachel Jean Mitchell

·         J.H.S. 125 Henry Hudson

·         I.S. 340

 

(Disclaimer: This is in no way intended to imply that these schools were deserving of the new grade they would have received under next year’s curve.)

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