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in 11th grade. Last year there was a slight increase locally, 69 percent compared to 68 percent in 1992. Statewide that figure remained unchanged at 61 percent.
Statewide those percentages change very little from year to year. Locally, especially in a small school system like Rappahannock’s, fluctuations can be expected and probably reflect the relative strenths of particular classes more than educational practices.
Other gains for the schools reflected in the OAP include an increase from 21 to 67 in the percentage of those taking Advanced Placement tests who scored 3 or higher, a decrease in the drop out rate in grades 7-12 from 4 to 2 percent, a decrease in dropouts in grades 9-12 from 6 to 3 percent, a decrease in dropouts among special education students from 9 to 3 percent, and an increase in the special education students between 16 and 21 years old who have paid or nonpaid work experience from 6 to 70 percent.
Attendance was off in 1993 compared to 1992. The OAP uses the percentage of students who missed 10 or fewer days from school. For the local public schools as a whole that dropped from 81 to 60 percent, for special education students it dropped from 43 to 26 percent, for kindergarten through 5th grade from 97 to 68 percent, for 6th-8th grades from 92 to 59 percent, and for 9th-12th grades from 54 to 48 percent. Statewide those percentages in 1993 were 70 percent overall, 52 percent for special education students, 76 percent for elementary school students, 70 percent for middle school students, and 63 percent for secondary school students.
Other measures in which the schools did less well in 1993 than in 1992 were the percentage of graduates earning the advanced studies diploma, which dropped from 46 to 37, the percentage of graduates who had completed a typing or keyboarding class, from 66 to 62 percent, an increase in the percentage of “overage” students in 4th and 8th grades and a decrease in the percentage of elementary and secondary students who passed all four tests of physical fitness.
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