LRSD’s Academic Distress Schools Receive 67%, 77%, 92% of Students Three Grades or More Below Level

Print this. Keep it at the ready. And the next time someone suggests that the panacea for the Little Rock School District’s ills is “local control,” give it to them.

  • LRSD has seven (7) Priority Schools (among lowest 5% academically performing in state)
    • 17.5% of state’s total of 40 schools
  • LRSD has fifteen (15) Focus Schools (among lowest 6-10% academically performing in state)
    • 18% of state’s total of 85 schools

Consider the self-reported data in the third quarter 45-Day Reports from each of the LRSD Priority Schools:

School% Beginning Year 2 or More
Grade Levels Behind in Math
% Beginning Year 2 or More
Grade Levels Behind in
English Language Arts 
Baseline   
 Grade 2 14.8% 
 Grade 3 31.2% 13%
 Grade 4 31.2% 23%
 Grade 5 44.1% 26%
 % Beginning Year 3 or More
Grade Levels Behind in Math
% Beginning Year 3 or More
Grade Levels Behind in
English Language Arts
 
Cloverdale   
 Grade 6 67% 61%
 Grade 7 65% 63%
 Grade 8 63% 65%
Henderson  
 Grade 6 77% 43%
 Grade 7 79% 35%
 Grade 8 78% 29%
Mabelvale  
 Grade 6 69% 33%
 Grade 7 72% 52%
 Grade 8 77% 52%
Fair  
 Grade 9 95% 76%
 Grade 10 97% 67%
 Grade 11  
 Grade 12  
Hall  
 Grade 9 91.86% 85.56%
 Grade 10 90.06% 70.55%
 Grade 11  
 Grade 12  
McClellan  
 Grade 9 78% 75%
 Grade 10 75% 79%
 Grade 11 50% 77%
 Grade 12 54% 67%

See the pattern? With few exceptions (e.g. Henderson’s English Language Arts), the longer the students progress in the system, the further they fall behind.

Little Rock has no elementary schools in “Academic Distress,” but fourteen of its elementary schools are among the 10% lowest academically performing schools in Arkansas.

When Academic Distress Cloverdale, Henderson and Hall are respectively receiving 67%, 77% and 91.86% of their students three or more grades below level, the pipeline is broken, and the receiving schools are not to blame.

Click the school links above for the full 45-Day Reports, which include other illuminating cause/effect information:

  • Annual Student Achievement Goals
  • Principal’s Narrative Report
  • School Improvement Leadership Team’s Narrative Report
  • Enrollment/Discipline Data
  • Teacher Attendance Data
  • Student Attendance Data
  • Math Data
  • English Language Arts Data
  • School Summary of Interim Assessments
  • Student Screening Data
  • Summary of Educator/Student School Climate Survey

Unfortunately, no reports are provided by LRSD’s Focus Elementary Schools:

  • Bale
  • Chicot
  • Franklin
  • King
  • Pulaski Heights
  • Rockefeller
  • Romine
  • Stephens
  • Wakefield
  • Washington
  • Watson
  • Western Hills
  • Wilson
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