WCPSS's Market Share, or "Where Do New Students Come From?"

In a prior blog entry discussing the comparatively minor impact of immigration, I mentioned a report from our Growth and Planning Department examining where our new students were coming from along with other demographic information.

That report, "Students Leaving and Entering WCPSS In 2005-06" (what some staff call the "market share report"), is now complete. I'm linking the PDF file here until we have a more permanent home for the Growth and Planning Department's reports on our website (coming soon).

Here's a quick summary:

• More students came to WCPSS this year from private/religious, home or charter schools than left last year.

• Despite the rapid growth in student membership, the overall makeup of the student population changed only slightly.

  • There was a slight increase in the percentage of Hispanic students (from 8.2 to 9.2 percent), a slight decrease in the percentage of White students (from 56.8 to 55.4 percent), and almost no change for Black, Asian and Multi-racial students (26.9 percent, 4.7 percent, and 3.6 percent respectively).

  • A higher percentage of new students are from families with low income.

  • A lower percentage of new students are identified for special education services.

  • About the same percentage of new students as continuing students come from homes where English is not the primary language.

All the numbers are broken down in this six-page report. Have a look!

(Updated with a more descriptive link to the earlier blog entry.)

Posted by Chip Sudderth at 2:16 PM on March 16, 2006 | Leave Feedback

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