The SAT isn’t the only game in town. As most people know, students can also take the ACT to fulfill their examination requirement for college applications. While 57.4% of students in LAUSD and LAUSD charters take the SAT, only 27% take the ACT. But just like the SAT, the ACT participation rate is higher in charter […]
College Acceptance
Charter Schools have higher SAT Participation Rates
You might think that the summer time is a low point for data. But right as summer break began, the California Department of Education released new data: participation rates for the SAT, ACT and AP tests. The data is a year old, but I’ll take it. First, let’s define SAT participation rates: The SAT participation […]
Do Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Schools in UC Admittance?
A few weeks ago, I put out a top twenty list of UC admittance in LAUSD. Almost immediately, people noted that more than half the list were charter schools. LA School Report noted, “Of the top 20 schools in LA Unified with the highest UC acceptance rates, calculated by School Data Nerd blog, more than half […]
UC Admittance Rates for Every Public High School in California
I got a lot of feedback on my last post where I calculated the admittance rate for every school in Los Angeles Unified’s boundaries. The most common feedback I got was this: Could you calculate other schools outside the LAUSD boundaries? Sure, why not. Thanks to a few tips from readers, I was able to […]
Look up Your School’s UC Admittance Rate
If you’re a school data nerd like me, today is Christmas. Why? Today the UC Office of the President released 2016 data for the UC system. This dataset is awesome, and I’m ready to open my Christmas present. The first thing I did was calculate the application, admission and enrollment rates for every individual school. […]
2016 Year in Review
It has been just over 300 days since I started this blog, and in that time, I have written 95 posts. I started it as a dinky little Tumblr account, and have grown into a full-on Blog. And while I started by just sharing this with my students and friends, there are now people, whom I have never […]
Even More Impressive: 1 in 8 students at Foshay go to USC.
Last week, USC went on a media blitz sharing the success of Foshay Learning Center. Foshay is a public school operated by LAUSD that is part of USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative. This year, Foshay Learning Center had more students enrolled in USC’s freshman class than any other school. 19 of their students enrolled at USC […]
Does Diversity improve your School's UC Acceptance Rate?
A few weeks ago, I created a list of the most diverse schools in Los Angeles. Of the top twenty schools, only two were high schools: Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) and Granada Hills Charter High School. Around the same time, I also calculated the UC acceptance rates for LA High schools. LACES was […]
Some Schools "Over-Apply" to UCs (but is that bad?)
A few weeks ago, I published a map of UC Acceptance rates. However, I am a total noob when it comes to this whole website thing, so I couldn’t figure out how to really make it searchable. Well, I think I figured out how to make it searchable: If you click here you can search and find […]
Look Up Your School's UC Acceptance Rate
Last week, I discussed calculating the acceptance rate of high schools by using the number accepted divided by the senior class population. I have taken that data and put it into a map. Now you can look up an acceptance rate for any school. On the map, click your school’s point. On the side you’ll see […]