Prattsburgh Central School
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Prattsburgh Central School
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New York State School Report Card and Comprehensive Assessment Report: "PRATTSBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AMONG TOP PERFORMING NYS SCHOOLS" Recently David K. Wiles, a professor of Education Administration at the State University of NY at Albany, authored a book, Networking High Performance in New York's Secondary Education - The Regents Curriculum Story, which provides a positive look at public education reform by investigating the improvement of secondary programs in New York State. His study supports the value of a regents program. The study identifies the best performing public school districts in the State of New York by using standards of mastery in nine Regents subjects and graduation rates. Professor Wiles identified New York's Top 200 Regents Performance Districts, which represents slightly over one-fourth of New York State's 718, K-12 districts offering secondary instruction. The Prattsburgh Central School District ranked 138 out of this top 200 list. After analyzing test data from the base year 1993-94 and the 1994-95 school year, the best performing public school districts in the state were identified and ranked. Prattsburgh Central School was the only Steuben County school to rank in the Top 200. Prattsburgh Central School also ranked among the top 30 schools who were the fastest improving districts (one year climb from base year 1993-94 to 1994-95.) Eighty-three of the top two hundred districts (41 percent) were located in the four counties composing the New York City metropolitan area; Nassau County 27 (13.5%; Suffolk County 27(13.5%); Westchester county 24 (12.0%) and Rockland County 5(23.5% of all districts under consideration. Outside of the New York City Metropolitan area, the next most concentrated areas of "top 200" producers were Monroe County (10 of 18 districts), Warren County (4of 8 districts), Ontario County (8of 18 districts). Monroe and Ontario counties are near Rochester, Onondaga County contains Syracuse, while Essex and Warren counties are in New York's Adirondack or North Country region. None of the top 200 districts in the state were located in the following counties; Alleghany, Cattaragus, Chenango, Cortland, Clinton, Fulton, Montgomery, Orleans, Wyoming, Yates.
Last Updated-Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |