Port Richmond is the only borough school to receive a 'C'
Port Richmond High School was graded a "C" by the Department of Education.STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.
-- While the six of the borough's 11 public high schools earned "A" grades on their
progress reports this year, three schools saw their grade drop, with Port
Richmond High School earning the borough's only C.
The reports were
released this morning by Department of Education Chancellor Dennis
Walcott.
Port Richmond fell
from a B in the 2009-2010 school year to a C in 2010-2011. The school earned a C in each category of the report: student progress, which measures the progress students make toward graduation by earning credits and passing Regents exams; student performance, which measures how many students graduated within 4 or 6 years, and the type of diploma they earned; and student environment, which includes attendance and a survey of the school's academic expectations, safety, communication and engagement.
Like the progress
reports released for middle and elementary schools earlier this year, the high
school reports for the first time award extra credit for schools who make
progress with the lowest-performing students, black and Latino males, or that
move special education students into more inclusive settings. Port Richmond
earned one point for making the percentage of students ranked in the lowest
third citywide who scored 75 or higher on the English
Regents.
The school wasn't
the only one to see its grade drop: Ralph E. McKee Career and Technical Education High
School fell from an A to a
B.
Eight of the ten schools that were graded kept the same grade from last year.
| Borough high school report card grades | |||
| Port Richmond and McKee saw their grades drop | |||
| School | 2010-11 | 2009-10 | |
| CSI High School for International Studies | A | A | |
| Concord High School (Transfer High School) | A | A | |
| Curtis High School | B | B | |
| Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School | * | * | |
| Ralph E. McKee Career & Technical Education HS | B | A | |
| New Dorp High School | A | A | |
| The Michael J. Petrides School | A | A | |
| Port Richmond High School | C | B | |
| Staten Island Technical High School | A | A | |
| Tottenville High School | B | B | |
| Susan E. Wagner High School | A | A | |