The Voice of Santa Monica High

Submit your articles & opinions to editor@gripdoctrine.com

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Scrutinizing the SARC

After looking over SAMO’s School Accountability Report Card (SARC), published by the school on a regular basis, we came across the following statistics of interest:

• Only 36% of students who are “Economically Disadvantaged”, are proficient in English & Science.

• SAMO has a dropout rate nine times less than that that of the State average

• 76% of White students at SAMO are “proficient” in skills learned in their English classes, compared with 33% of African Americans, and 38% of Latino’s.

• SAMO students have an average SAT score (in 2006) of 1630.

• 30% of African Americans, and 35% of Latino’s are “proficient” in Science, contrasted with 73% of White students.

• In 2006, 18% more SAMO students were proficient in English/Language Arts than the State average. The numbers for Math are –16%, Science +22%, and History 13%

Bringing you the Good, and the Bad,

The Grip Doctrine.

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

View the full SARC report card for yourself at:

http://www.samohi.smmusd.org/About/sarc/SARCSamohi.pdf

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

1630 ... not that bad

Anonymous said...

the National Average was 1518

Anonymous said...

dont the stats concerning black and latino test scores disgust you at all? maybe this is one issue ASB could work on...

Anonymous said...

Since it has been brought up, there is also a category for Asians (which we did not include, along with Filipino, Native American, and a couple others).

The Asian "proficiency levels" are rather similar to the white ones, except with slightly higher math and slightly lower english scores.

Sorry for the omissions...

Anonymous said...

I wonder what this says about the house system that set out to help the disadvantaged kids...