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how did you deal with retention rate and class size when creating composite indicator in the school ranking analysis? like reverse coding or something? they should have negative effect on the final ranking, right?

Correct. For the retention and class size indicators smaller is better, so we multiply those z-scores by "-1" to reverse code them.

if possible, I would suggest your service try to include magnet programs in San Antonio that are within the high schools. HCA and ISA are separate schools and highly regarded, but some magnets are not separate, yet also highly regarded. Doing so might give parents of future students more options.

Thanks for your feedback! That is a good point and certainly something for us to consider.

I don't even see my son's high school on this list. According to U.S. News' recent ranking, the Liberal Arts & Science Academy (LASA) ranked 68 in the nation and 14 in the state. Why doesn't the school appear on this list? Thanks! Renee Voss

Missing data. If a campus is missing one or more data points, we cannot rank it.

Why isn't Elsa England school in RRISD not ranked?

England Elementary is brand new this year, and there is not enough data available to rank them yet. Usually schools need to be open for at least three years before we have enough data to rank them.

Why are the charter schools not included in the rankings?

We rank all public schools, including magnets and charters. Any charter school that has all of the data is included in the rankings.

Why isn't Claudia Taylor Johnson High School in North East ISD. not ranked?

Missing data. If a campus is missing one or more data points, we cannot rank it.

Why isn't Austin ISD's Eastside Memorial HS included in the rankings?

Missing data. If a campus is missing one or more data points, we cannot rank it.

Why is Vandegrift High School in the Leander ISD in Austin again not ranked? Last year, "lack of data" was cited. Shouldn't all public schools be included in your rank? You pull data from TEA, which should have (or have access to) the relevant data. We would like to see how all schools score.

We strive to rank all public schools, but occasionally we don't have access to all the latest data we need, even from TEA. We will make a special note to to investigate what is missing for Vandegrift to ensure it can be ranked next year.

Why wasn't Boerne ISD included in the San Antonio metropolitan rankings?

Boerne ISD is not included in our 6-county Greater San Antonio area, but it is included in the statewide rankings which will be released on our website on 5/22. Check back then! www.childrenatrisk.org

Where are the south east Texas schools? Beaumont, port Arthur, Nederland , port neches ISD's

Please check our website (www.childrenatrisk.org) tomorrow (Wednesday 5/22) for the release of our statewide rankings, which will include all districts in the state!

Because you use a distributive "grading" process, won't lifting "F" schools up, simply push other "C" and "D" schools down? In other words, every school could improve, but you would still have "F" schools because your rankings are relative.

While the rankings themselves are relative, we specifically made sure the grading scale was not. Because of the way we set cut points for each grade, it's possible for as many schools as meet the criteria to get A's, and no schools will get F's just to round out the curve. For more information on the grading scale, please check out the methodology report on our website www.childrenatrisk.org.

Why is Parker County left out? You can;t have credible rankings if you leave out Aledo, which laps into Tarrant.

For the purposes of our research, we define the North Texas region as Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Rockwall, and Tarrant counties. Thank you for your point concerning Parker County and Aledo ISD; we will consider that for next year's rankings.

Why wasn't Southlake Carroll included in the ranking?

Southlake Carroll High School was excluded from our rankings for missing data.

I am a teacher at Rosemont 6th Grade in the Fort Worth ISD. Were 6th grade centers rated? I could not find my school listed anywhere. Nick Nims

Because our criteria relies on data from grades 1-4 and grades 6-7, some intermediate schools that are solely grades 5-6 were ultimately excluded from the rankings. We make every effort to pair campuses with irregular feeder patterns so that they can be included, but unfortunately due to the volume of schools we rank, it’s impossible analyze feeder patterns in every district and pair/include all campuses.

There are schools missing out of districts you ranked, why did you rank some and not the otehrs? If a district has 5 high schools then rank all not just 3 of them.

We make every effort to include all schools in the rankings. However, a campus must have complete data from the Texas Education Agency for each of the indicators included in the analysis. If a campus is missing one or more data points for the most recent year, CHILDREN AT RISK attempts to fill in the missing data with data collected from the prior year and, if not available, up to three years prior. Other than having missing data, the only other schools that weren't ranked were those classified as Alternative.

How do you indicate when a school is turning around? It seems to me your data merely drive people to shop for schools which have already achieved greatness, rather than to invest in a school that is making huge changes quickly.

We agree that it is important to note when a school is making changes that lead to big improvements. In the past we have published a Most Improved list which acknowledged just that. This year unfortunately due to methodology changes, we could not calculate Most Improved schools the same way. However, for next year we plan to find a way to highlight those schools again.

How do you determine the class size?

Average class size data is reported directly by the Texas Education Agency (TEA).

How can you rank schools if the state hasn't put their information in there? Did you visit each school or get any input on what they were doing to address the issue?

All data comes from the state via the Texas Education Agency (TEA); we do not get information from individual schools. This year's rankings data is from the 2011-2012 school year, which is the most recent data that TEA can provide.

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