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Mayor's Children and Education Initiative

Criteria for school selection

There are 25 elementary schools within the City. To decide which schools would receive new classes, experts in early childhood education were consulted. They established a weighted ranking system to prioritize schools, based upon: the percentage of students who qualified for free and reduced lunch, school FCAT scores, the percentage of children for whom English was a second language, and the gap between the number of pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms at each school. The chart below shows the priority ranking of the City’s 25 elementary schools:
 

 

 

Rank

 

 

School Name

Weight

10

5

5

3

2

% Free/ Reduced Lunch

2003 FCAT Grade

% Limited English Proficient

# Kinder-garten

classes

# Pre-K classes

1

Orange Center

98

D

28.2

4

1

2

Engelwood

81

C

39.6

5

1

3

Richmond Heights

97

C

1.1

4

1

4

Eccleston

96

B

2.2

4

1

5

Ivey Lane

94

C

4.5

4

1

6

Grand Avenue

94

D

2.7

4

1

7

Shingle Creek

83

A

27.1

5

1

8

Catalina

85

C

19.4

5

1

9

Rock Lake

92

C

3.6

4

1

10

McCoy

71

B

42.4

7

0

11

Ventura

82

A

21.9

4

1

12

Washington Shores

85

C

12.1

4

1

13

Hillcrest

72

A

36.9

5

0

14

Rosemont

79

C

5.1

7

1

15

Fern Creek

76

B

6.1

3

1

16

Azalea

68

A

16.2

8

0

17

Kaley

67

A

2.6

3

0

18

Dover Shores

62

A

8.7

6

0

19

Lake Como

59

A

7

3

0

20

Audubon Park

56

A

8.5

4

0

21

Lake Silver

53

B

4.9

6

0

22

Metrowest

38

A

18.3

11

0

23

North Lake Park

37

A

10.5

5

0

24

Blankner

32

A

6.5

5

0

25

Princeton

39

A

3.7

4

0


 

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