ConnCan revised some of this data after this article was published although the results are very similar.
ConnCan is a non-profit organization devoted to helping the schools of Connecticut achieve the goal of the law “No Child Left Behind.� One of the services that ConnCan provides is a ranking of all public schools in terms of their status in reaching the goal of this law, as well as a measure of year-to-year progress (gains) in reaching the goal of this law. For the year ending in 2006, the New Canaan public school system was ranked first in achieving the goal of NCLB with 92% students having achieved this goal at the Middle School level. New Canaan was closely followed by Darien, Westport, Sherman, Wilton, Redding, Willington, Simsbury, Ridgefield, and Litchfield – all southwestern Connecticut systems except for Willington.
With all of the attacks on the Woodstock public school system coming from representatives of the Woodstock Academy, CPS, and the so-called “coalition.org�, I was curious to learn how ConnCan ranks the Woodstock public school system among the 169 towns of Connecticut. The Academy does not disclose information to the State or ConnCan because of it’s ‘private’ status.
The Woodstock preK-8 system is ranked 24th in the state in terms of its overall performance. ConnCan provides a simple grade (A down to F) for the performance of each school in Connecticut. Woodstock received an A- for students within goal at the Middle School with 85% (62% state average) of its students within goal for the 2005-2006 school year (12nd out of 134 middle schools for which information was available). Woodstock also received an A- for gains from the preceding school year because achievement of goal rose by 7% (10th out of 134). Read the rest of this entry »
