On my original post for this assignment, I accidentially compared two elementary schools instead of two high schools! I figured I would keep the two schools I orginally compared (Englewood and Tenafly), and compare the high school report cards for these schools as well.
Dwight Morrow High School is the public high school located in Englewood. There school day runs a little over state average, reporting a 7 hour and 45 minute school day. In comparison, Tenafly High school reported a 7 hour school day. Although there were many similiarities while comparing the elementary schools in these towns, there high schools had some differences. For example, the enrollment in Engelwood is 1,034 students, while the enrollment in Tenafly is 1,237 students.
Unlike the elementary school report cards, where Englewood had a much greater number of computers in the school, the high school report was the opposite. Tenafly reported having 657 computers in it's school, while Englewood only reported having 425 computers. It was interesting to see how much two school in the same district can be so different!
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The two schools I compared for this assignment are both located in Bergen County, NJ. The two school's report cards I looked at were the Walter Stillman Elementary School in Tenafly, and the Dr. J Grieco Elementary School located in Englewood. I am currently working at Catholic school in Englewood, so I was curious to see the statistics for the public elementary school. Tenafly is the neighboring town, and I figured it would be interesting to compare the two schools.
The two schools have many similarities including: almost the same length of school day (Tenafly- 6 hr.45 min., and Englewood-6 hr. 30 min.), aveage class sizes (around 20 students), and overall similiar school enrollment (Tenafly-401 students, and Englewood- 560 students).
One of the biggest differences I noticed while comparing the two school's report card, was the catergory labled "Internet Connectivity." This is catergory is defined as "numbers of instructional, multimedia-capable computers with a manufacture date after July 1, 2006 available for instruction at various locations and how many of those computers have a connection to the internet. Tenafly's report shows that they only have 17 computers with internet connections, while Englewood reports a very high number of computers with internet reporting 184 computers in their school. I was suprised to see such a big difference considering both school's similar enrollment and class sizes!
Ashley, Thanks for fixing your blog post. I too think it's really interesting that for the high schools Tenafly had more computers but in the elementary school they had less! I also thought it was surprising that schools can have such a difference in length of school day. Having 45 more minutes of instructional time is an advantage for Englewood, that's for sure.
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ReplyDeleteI also focused in on the amount of computers available to students. I find it interesting that when looking at all schools, their accomodations are different. I compared 2 schools in the same county, one being a low income and the other high income. I was surprised to see that the low income schools offered more technology. Some of the stats surprised me because you would think the students achievements in the higher income area would be significantly greater in all areas, and they were not. This is a great tool that offers a lot of useful information!
Hey Ashley
ReplyDeleteThat is a huge difference in the number of computers. I wonder if that's some kind of mistake? Although, maybe at the elementary level they don't allow students online for anything so they just need the internet-ready ones for the teachers. Maybe they have more computers overall (I would hope so) but only 17 are connected to the internet. Makes you wonder...