I've been in Lincoln for over 30 years now and parents have been moving kids out of Lincoln schools ever since I can remember. They do it for a variety of reasons and academic excellence is often *not* the main reason. At different times I remember parents being concerned about discipline in the schools, lack of structure, lack of desired extracurricular activities, etc. Very often, many parents want their kids to go to schools similar to the ones they went to, whether that means private schools, parochial schools, more structured, ..., whatever.
I'd caution against taking *this* data as a sign that Lincoln schools aren't performing well enough. -Bob On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:13 AM Karla Gravis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Since the topic of trends has come up, I pulled together attrition data > for previous years, straight from the DOE website: > > School 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021 2021-2022 > 2022-2023 > Lincoln 6.2 6.8 7.1 6.8 7.8 5.0 8.5 > Carlisle 2.7 3.7 4.0 2.9 4.3 2.3 3.5 > Dover/Sherborn 2.7 3.0 3.1 3.1 4.8 4.1 3.0 > Lexington 3.7 3.0 4.0 2.5 6.2 5.9 4.2 > Going back as far as 2016, Lincoln School consistently has the highest > attrition in this group (with only one single exception in 2021 where > Lexington was higher, but we were still higher than Carlisle and > Dover/Sherborn). Getting this data is a very manual process, which is why I > focused on our similar districts plus Lexington that was used as a > comparison, but I am happy to add other towns if people are interested. > > It's not a difference of 1 - 2 students. Carlisle has a similar size to > ours (383 in grades 2-7 versus our 356). If we had had their attrition > coming into 2022-2023, we would have lost 18 fewer children. I am not > making an assumption as to why our attrition is higher, but I do think it > is worth investigating. > -- > The LincolnTalk mailing list. > To post, send mail to [email protected]. > Browse the archives at https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/private/lincoln/ > . > Change your subscription settings at > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/lincoln. > >
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