- Are Good Grades the Norm at Your School?
Curious how grades break down at your local school?
Check out this chart, which shows how report cards differ at San Diego Unified high schools. Schools are ranked on the percentage of students in grades 10-12 getting a B average or higher. High grades are much more common at some schools than others. So are low ones, as you can see here:
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- How We Analyzed Grades at the Met
Last year, concerns about grade changing surfaced at a small San Diego school called the Met. Students there can improve grades they earned earlier by doing additional work.
But school district internal auditors argued that the alternative school located on the Mesa College campus couldn't alter grades given by other school districts.
Beyond the investigation over changed grades, I got interested in the bigger picture: What were grades like at the Met? How did its different approach to grading shape the marks that students got?
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- A School Where Grades Are Tops, But Test Scores Are Not
Students' report cards glow at this unusual, small school. Their test scores look good, too — but they don't shine as brightly as their grades.
Students at the San Diego Metropolitan Career and Technical High School, known as the Met, were more likely to get As and Bs than kids at any San Diego high school last year. Nearly three out of four students had at least a B average in grades 10 to 12, almost twice the average at local schools.
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