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ties, and educating elementary, middle, and secondary school students.
For measures on preparing students for college, Rappahannock improved in five measurements and dropped in one. One measurement was not available for the 1989-90 school year.
More Rappahannock students received the advanced studies diploma, 32 percent compared to 19 percent the previous year. A higher percentage of eighth graders were studying algebra and a foreign language.
More students were taking advanced placement or college level courses, and 40 percent received a score of three or higher on AP tests.
Also, more eighth graders scored above the 75th percentile on the composite score of the Iowa Basic Tests. However, a lower percentage of 11th grade students were above the 75th percentile.
In preparing students for work, Rappahannock students scored better than last year in three measurements and lower in one. Ninety one percent of Rappahannock 11th graders were above the 25th percentile in reading and math and 85 percent took a course in keyboarding or typing.
However, only 52 percent of those not planning farther education completed a vocational program. The state would like to see all students not planning further education complete such a program.
School Superintendent David Gangel said he is not sure this is a desirable goal. He said the state requires that such students have marketable skills, but that does not necessarily mean a vocational program.
Dr. Gangel said the school system is studying the problem of what to expect of the middle group of students — those between the college bound and the vocational completers — this summer. “We have to convince ourselves that a high school diSee
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