Hello Bob,
Excellent point, and I believe the data also includes people who simply move
out of Lincoln (and thus their children leave the school),
Greg
Wednesday, March 22, 2023, 10:23:35 AM, you 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
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