Data from Illinois Report Cards
All data from https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/ All data specifically 7th grade math in 2018. If you are a 7th graders in Illinois and you are low income, you are probably not successful in school. There are only two 7th grade classes with more than 50% poverty above the 50 percentile on PARCC in the whole state. What can we do about this? This is schools so if your school has more than about 10% of students chronically truant, your school is in the bottom have of proficiency. How do we fix this? Having an all white school is not a guarantee of proficiency, The best school in the state is only 40% white. At actually looks as if as schools pass the 90% white percentage they start falling. Of course the schools that are less than 20% white are all below the 50th percentile. I wonder if they correlate to the high poverty threshold? My point here is that diversity is a strength, I don't know why I feel it necessary to explicitly say that. Schools with high ra