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Institut C.D. HOWE Institute Signposts Essential Policy Intelligence | Conseils indispensables sur les politiques of Success June 7, 2012 Ontario’s Best Public Schools: 2009-2011 Central Ontario Durham Catholic District School Board Durham District School Board Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board Penetanguishene Protestant Separate School Board Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board Simcoe County District School Board Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board Trillium Lakelands District School Board York Catholic District School Board York Region District School Board How do parents, teachers, taxpayers and school administrators know if children are attending a good school? A school cannot be considered a success just because a high percentage of its students are successful; nor can schools be meaningfully ranked on that basis. A school with strong standardized test results could simply be a school where students come from more advantaged backgrounds. But not all variation in school results can be explained by variation in social and economic characteristics. By controlling for characteristics of schools’ students and the communities they come from, we present a measure of success for each school when compared with similar schools. The schools are organized alphabetically by school board and then by school name. Description of Variables Students: The number of students in either grade 3 or grade 6 who were eligible to take the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) test (three-year total). Pass Rate: The percentage of all students who scored at Level 3 or Level 4 on EQAO tests. The number of students who score at Level 3 or Level 4 is divided by all students at the school in the Essential Policy Intelligence Signposts of Success relevant grade, whether they take the assessment or not. Pass rates are calculated using all three subjects – reading, writing and mathematics – and over three school years, 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11. Adjusted Pass Rate: The difference between the school’s pass rate and the provincial average pass rate. This is an average of the nine gaps between school and provincial pass rates, over three assessments and three years. A positive value indicates the school has a higher pass rate than the provincial average; a negative value indicates the opposite. Predicted Adjusted Pass Rate: The adjusted pass rate that a school would be expected to attain given the performance of other schools in similar socio-economic environments. Percentile: A performance measure adjusted for observable social and economic characteristics and variation in the average score on assessments. Percentiles go from 0 to 100. Schools that score exactly as predicted get a percentile of 50. The predicted adjusted pass rate is subtracted from the actual adjusted pass rate and expressed as a percentile. A percentile value of 90 indicates that this school’s outcome is higher than 90 percent of other schools in the province. A value of 10 indicates that this school’s result is higher than only 10 percent of other schools or, equivalently, that 90 percent of schools score better than this school. One-unit differences in percentile ratings are not of any interest. It is the large gaps between the 90th percentile schools and the 10th percentile schools that are of the most interest. Tests Available: The number of assessments for which data is available for the school, out of a possible nine. If the available data is only from one of math or reading and writing, the number is followed by M or RW, respectively. Thus, 3M would indicate that the calculation was based on three math assessments, as data were not available for any of the six reading and writing assessments. A note on missing values for some schools: Some schools’ performance indicators are missing for two reasons. First, the results in a grade in a year at a school are suppressed by EQAO for privacy reasons when there are fewer than 15 students in the grade. Second, the predicted and percentile indicators for a given school and grade are shown only if outcomes for at least 45 students in total were available. Please cite the source of these indicators as: The David Johnson / C.D. Howe Institute Ontario School Performance Database (2012) The details concerning the construction of these statistics can be found in: Johnson, David, and Robbie Brydon (2012) Ontario’s Best Public Schools: 2009-2011. C.D. Howe Institute e-brief 134, http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/e-brief_134.pdf Researchers interested in obtaining this database in a useable electronic format to carry out their own research should contact the C.D. Howe Institute at [email protected] with a short description of their research project. Essential Policy Intelligence 1 Ontario’s Best Public Schools: 2009-2011 Signposts of Success Grade 3 Results Grade 6 Results Predicted Predicted Adjusted Adjusted Tests Adjusted Adjusted Tests School No. School Name Students Pass Rate Pass Rate Pass Rate Percentile Available Students Pass Rate Pass Rate Pass Rate Percentile Available Durham Catholic District School Board 771406 Brother Andre Catholic School 239 69.6 2.0 4.9 39 9 228 74.3 7.0 6.3 53 9 706990 Father Joseph Venini Catholic School 96 72.1 4.6 -3.0 78 9 117 61.7 -5.6 -1.5 32 9 710954 Good Shepherd 33 0 51 73.3 6.0 6 720313 Holy Family Catholic School 20 0 24 0 718220 Holy Redeemer Catholic School 99 76.8 9.3 -0.3 84 9 225 85.8 18.5 6.1 92 9 721387 Immaculate Conception Catholic 48 66.7 0.5 3 52 73.5 6.6 6 724084 John XXIII Catholic School 113 73.4 5.9 0.5 71 9 111 67.0 -0.3 -2.6 60 9 845884 Monsignor Philip Coffey Catholic School 91 56.4 -11.2 -15.5 67 9 96 50.6 -16.8 -15.0 42 9 733040 Mother Teresa Catholic School 162 71.4 3.8 1.6 59 9 154 66.7 -0.7 2.3 37 9 741728 Our Lady of the Bay Catholic School 67 81.4 13.9 5.4 81 9 84 89.0 21.7 5.6 97 9 764434 Sir Albert Love Catholic School 85 58.1 -9.5 -5.6 35 9 81 58.3 -9.1 -6.6 39 9 773956 St Anthony Daniel Catholic 57 81.4 13.8 3.3 86 9 63 72.8 5.5 2.9 61 9 777242 St Bernadette Catholic School 196 73.4 5.8 -1.0 75 9 197 70.3 2.9 0.5 61 9 762083 St Bernard Catholic School 100 77.1 9.6 6.9 61 9 127 78.6 11.3 7.1 68 9 781282 St Catherine of Siena Catholic 130 63.6 -4.0 2.7 25 9 143 76.8 9.5 1.8 81 9 784133 St Christopher Catholic School 114 58.4 -9.2 -1.1 21 9 141 69.1 1.8 -1.5 65 9 789178 St Elizabeth Seton Catholic School 224 70.1 2.5 8.1 28 9 245 67.4 0.1 12.4 8 9 791806 St Francis de Sales Separate School 64 88.5 20.9 3.6 96 9 72 77.9 10.6 4.6 75 9 796352 St Hedwig Catholic School 45 50.7 -15.4 3 58 67.8 0.9 6 798258 St Isaac Jogues Catholic School 124 74.0 6.4 4.3 59 9 126 73.7 6.3 3.6 62 9 798460 St James Separate School 66 81.6 14.0 1.6 90 9 83 70.2 2.9 -1.2 68 9 803057 St John Bosco Catholic Elementary School 160 71.4 3.8 2.7 54 9 150 83.9 16.6 4.4 92 9 805327 St John the Evangelist Catholic 61 66.2 -1.4 5.7 24 9 87 70.9 3.5 4.3 46 9 814423 St Joseph Catholic School 148 65.4 -2.1 -7.8 72 9 155 64.9 -2.4 -7.3 71 9 811696 St Joseph Catholic School 96 75.8 8.3 6.7 56 9 117 81.7 14.4 5.3 85 9 772020 St Jude Separate School 93 52.3 -15.2 2.0 4 9 111 75.0 7.7 4.4 65 9 818844 St Leo Catholic School 179 76.5 9.0 8.1 54 9 144 82.3 14.9 7.7 80 9 820830 St Luke the Evangelist Catholic Elementary School 189 83.9 16.4 7.8 81 9 224 84.7 17.4 7.6 87 9 823546 St Marguerite Bourgeoys Catholic School 103 73.2 5.6 6.7 46 9 123 72.1 4.7 7.5 38 9 730718 St Marguerite d'Youville Catholic School 118 65.5 -2.0 4.4 26 9 114 63.6 -3.8 4.7 17 9 823015 St Mark the Evangelist Catholic 118 72.7 5.2 5.8 47 9 143 71.7 4.4 4.4 50 9 830801 St Matthew the Evangelist 133 69.3 1.8 3.2 44 9 153 78.0 10.7 5.9 71 9 835668 St Monica Catholic School 147 70.5 3.0 10.8 21 9 130 70.6 3.3 10.6 20 9 2 Ontario’s Best Public Schools: 2009-2011 Signposts of Success Grade 3 Results Grade 6 Results Predicted Predicted Adjusted Adjusted Tests Adjusted Adjusted Tests School No. School Name Students Pass Rate Pass Rate Pass Rate Percentile Available Students Pass Rate Pass Rate Pass Rate Percentile Available 840696 St Patrick Catholic School 170 71.2 3.6 11.0 23 9 208 71.4 4.1 13.1 15 9 843156 St Paul Catholic School 126 75.3 7.8 5.8 58 9 116 67.6 0.2 5.3 28 9 852902 St Theresa Catholic School 75 76.7 9.1 2.0 76 9 87 80.5 13.2 1.8 90 9 854980 St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School 67 45.4 -22.2 -9.0 9 9 185 77.3 10.0 -2.3 92 9 858960 St Wilfrid Catholic School 131 62.6 -4.9 0.8 28 9 117 63.5 -3.8 2.1 25 9 691259 St.