A new report from Tulane University says New Orleans is improving education at public high schools.
The university’s Cowen Institute says the co-called “vulnerable students” are exceeding expectations.
The study released Wednesday defines those students as:
-- being more than two years above grade-level age in ninth grade
-- having failed an eighth-grade assessment test
-- qualifying for free or reduced-price lunches
-- and being eligible for special education services.
The analysis calculates the percentage of vulnerable students at each high school, and comes up with a score a school would be expected to achieve.
The study found 60 percent of New Orleans public high schools exceeded passage rates on End of Course exams.
Half had higher-than-predicted ACT scores, and all were at or above their predicted four-year graduation rates.
