SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle schools improving the most in recent years are nearly all in neighborhoods north of Interstate 90, away from the areas where most poor kids in Washington’s largest school district live.
A new analysis of district data by the University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public Education reports that south-end neighborhoods have 75 percent of the lowest-performing schools. And most of their high achieving schools are in the more affluent areas of West Seattle.
The researchers were taking a closer look at the data released to the public earlier this month by the school district. They also found only one in seven Seattle schools are both high growth and high achieving, and none of these are high schools.
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Online:
Center on Reinventing Public Education: http://www.crpe.org/cs/crpe/print/csr_docs/home.htm
Seattle School Reports: http://www.seattleschools.org/area/strategicplan/schoolreport.xml
