>From Karla's email: "I am not making an assumption as to why our attrition is higher, but I do think it is worth investigating." Seems fair enough.
--Debra On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:23 AM Bob Kupperstein <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> -- > 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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