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The Wake County Public School System earned a Gold Medal in Expansion Management Magazine's 16th Annual Education Quotient (TM) Ranking of 2,800 School Districts.
Superintendent Del Burns recently received a letter of congratulations and the Gold Medal certificate from Expansion Management chief editor Bill King.
Gold Medal schools rank in the top 16 percent of those districts the magazine evaluated. Unlike many other educational ratings, which equate excellence to the level of public funding received, the Educational Quotient (TM) or EQ focuses primarily on results. Although it includes data on spending, teacher salaries and the socioeconomic background of the surrounding communities, by far the most important factors are the test scores and the graduation rates.
The magazine ratings rated WCPSS at 83 for an Education Quotient (TM), the highest of any North Carolina urban school district. In comparison, the magazine gave an EQ of 37 to Forsyth County; 36 to Guilford County; and 33 to Charlotte Mecklenburg.
Expansion Management Magazine is a bimonthly business magazine that goes to more than 43,000 executives of companies that are actively looking for a place to expand or relocate their facilities within the next one to three years.
WCPSS was also recently mentioned in The Economist, a weekly news and international affairs publication with a circulation that tops one million. It is edited in London but has reporters in the US including Brian Barry who recently visited several WCPSS schools and talked with school administrators. You can read his article here.
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