Posted on 08/26/2019 5:21:09 AM PDT by Moonman62
An elementary school with the most astounding student success rates in all of Florida sits in one of the state’s most unusual locations: a condominium clubhouse in Miramar.
The A-rated Somerset Academy Miramar South, which is next to a swimming pool in the Bahia Miramar residential community, is a school most people don’t even know exists, and many parents think their kids actually attend a different school.
The school was the only one in the state where 100 percent of students passed state English and math exams last spring. The test results also showed about 70 percent of students in third through fifth grades scored the top level possible on the Florida Standards Assessment, far exceeding all other public schools in Florida.
About 93 percent of the school’s 220 students are listed as minorities, mostly Hispanic and black, with a third coming from low-income families. It’s the kind of success that usually serves as a national model for student achievement.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Heaven forbid a crab crawl out of the bucket...
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The teacher unions hate them, the state superintendent of education hates them, and the OSBI hates them.
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Yep, just proves that those in power want to stay in power and they always want more of it.
“Parents select the program. It is not based on performance,” Principal Alexandra Prieta said. “They do this in kindergarten or first grade — before students are in the state testing system.”
But not isn't a very satisfying explanation. Why would any parent take their kid out of such a top-performing program at the end of K? I just can't see a 2/3 of parents choosing another school.
There is a charter high school right down the street from my office in Nashua, NH. The Academy of Science and Design. It is the #1 public high school in the state. Any student in the state can go to it. You have to apply though.
There is a much heavier percentage of Asian Americans attending this school. I pass their parents driving their child to school every morning on my way to work. There is no football, baseball, soccer, hockey or basketball team. There is no lighted sports field with artificial grass. They concentrate on math, science, writing, computers, reading. Imagine that.
The charter school is in a decrepit old condominium clubhouse
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My FL high school (graduated 1981) had no AC , just jalousie windows ... only the Library had AC to keep the books from getting moldy... it was by far the best school performance-wise in the area. The quality of the teachers at my kids schools is appalling , but my wife won’t let me home school them..
The shrinkage may be attributable to FL’s “free PreK” or the details of some other incentive plan ,, perhaps it’s something to do with normal attrition ,, low income families tend to move around more it seems and transportation might be an issue...
They concentrate on math, science, writing, computers, reading. Imagine that.
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They are preparing the kids to live and work in the real world instead of indoctrinating them in useless PC garbage.
100% of their 2019 high school graduating class went onto a 4 year college.
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These are state tests.
The two school that gets the others are in the same Somerset system. Wife, who recently retired from Fla school system (she says not a moment too soon- the schools are resolutely going down the drain) has had a lot to say good about the Somerset schools. They have scientists teaching science coursed rather than ED degrees who got a survey course in “science” in ED school. They are not “cherry picking,” rather they are teaching which strikes the System as being heretical.
That doesn’t jibe with the education establishment always saying Performance = more($).
The success of a school is inversely proportional to the number of “Edjewkayshun” degrees held by the faculty.
Heer n Flori-DUH?, we solved all those problems long ago...When folks were not passing the things required to become a teacher—we just LOWERED the standards— Dumb,dumber,dumbest???
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