With Obama's recent visit to Wright Middle School, it seems like an opportune time to post the statistics for area middle schools.
Despite the apparent success of Wright, I wouldn't identify it as a particularly great school based on the data. As usual these data are for non-economically disadvantaged 8th graders.
As you can see James Wright (James Wrt) falls quite low in the rankings although I guess it's not so terrible compared on a state-wide basis. 44th percentile statewide is no great shakes though.
The top few remain generally the same year to year but switch places slightly. The top 5 schools are all Madison metro. Low and behold, the bottom 4 are also Madison metro.
I think both O'Keefe Middle School and Hamilton should be called out specifically this year though. In state-wide rankings across all middle schools, Hamilton comes in at #3 and O'Keefe at #5. Those are darn good scores.
The chart is below.
Economically Disadvantaged Comparison
Not to be a jerk about it but if you compare economically disadvantaged students across these same middle schools, you don't see James Wright as a stellar performer there either.
The overall scores are pretty abysmal across the board but if you compare these using statewide percentiles, you can get some idea of the quality of these schools with regard to educating the poor.
Spring Harbor does a pretty impressive job with low income students. Spring Harbor is a magnet school so I'm guessing it tends to draw the more education-oriented students of all types.
At 16th percentile statewide, Wright is no miracle cure at this point. Maybe the education money from the feds will help.
Not to be a jerk about it but if you compare economically disadvantaged students across these same middle schools, you don't see James Wright as a stellar performer there either.
The overall scores are pretty abysmal across the board but if you compare these using statewide percentiles, you can get some idea of the quality of these schools with regard to educating the poor.
Spring Harbor does a pretty impressive job with low income students. Spring Harbor is a magnet school so I'm guessing it tends to draw the more education-oriented students of all types.
At 16th percentile statewide, Wright is no miracle cure at this point. Maybe the education money from the feds will help.
