WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Westchester Children’s Association has released its 2015 New Rochelle Community Snapshot.
Among the findings:
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The New Rochelle Public School District saw improvements in its Mathematics proficiency rates for both third and eighth grade. On the English Language Arts (ELA) exams, however, third graders performed slightly worse than the previous year’s cohort, while the eighth grade ELA proficiency rate stayed the same.
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The percentage of students with limited proficiency in the English language ticked up slightly from 9% to 10%.
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Like Yonkers, New Rochelle’s graduation rate decreased slightly (by about 6 percentage points). However, the district’s college readiness rate held steady at 36%.
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This year, New Rochelle became the first Westchester community to accept President’s Obama My Brother’s Keeper challenge. So far, no other communities in the county have signed on, but we hope to see more following New Rochelle’s lead in supporting youth, especially young men of color. Read more about the goals of the initiative on Mayor Noam Bramson’s blog.
Download the 2015 New Rochelle Community Snapshot and its accompanying data packet.
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