With only one month left before the end of the school year, now is a good time to note where the AASD high schools started the year grade wise. Once the year ends we’ll be able to compare where they ended up to where they started out so that we can see if any improvement happened over the course of the year.
[Note: When I first wrote this article I used enrollment figures that were posted on the AASD website, but those were not current numbers. I have since updated the post to reflect the Third Friday Count numbers for the 2020/21 school year as listed on the Wisconsin Department Of Public Instruction website.)
On the first quarter report card, Appleton North had 821 students who received at least one D or one F on their report card. With a total enrollment as of the third Friday in September of 1,611, that is 50.96% of their student body.
North has no records of how many students received Virtual Plus services following the first quarter and no record of how many students with one D or F received Virtual Plus services.
Appleton East had 843 students who received at least one D or one F on their first quarter report card. With a total enrollment of 1,394 that is 60.47% of their student body.
They also have no record of how many students received Virtual Plus services or how many of the students with one D or F received Virtual Plus services.
Appleton West had 759 students that received at least one D or one F. With an enrollment of approximately 1,128 that is 67.29% of the student body.
Appleton West did actually keep some records regarding the Virtual Plus services they offered. 255 students received those services, but there were no records of how many students received academic support vs social/emotional support. There were also no records of how many students with at least one D or F received support.
Thank you for sharing this. Where there has been a lot of talk about these edge cases, the sad reality is many students are in the bell-curve, where their overall performance has been underwhelming. Going back into the classroom has made things going forward much better for many of them, and highlights the failed policies to keep kids at school when every other local school was in-person from the start last fall.