Hazen High School recognized for improving learning

July 18, 2006 - Hazen High School has been recognized by a national school evaluation service for significantly reducing academic achievement gaps.

Hazen was one of few schools in the state to narrow the gaps in student achievement between black, Hispanic or economically disadvantaged students and their higher-performing classmates while simultaneously raising the average proficiency rates of the student groups being compared.

The achievement gap study is the latest from SchoolMatters, a service of Standard & Poor’s Evaluation Services. This is the first year Standard & Poor's conducted this analysis at the school level.

The report identified “significant” gap reductions as those where disparities in the scores of ethnic and economic groups were narrowed by more than 5 percentage points. In addition, both lower- and higher-performing groups’ reading and math scores improved.
Hazen was recognized for narrowing the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged students and all students by an average of 10.5 percentage points, compared to the gap narrowing by an average of 0.7 percentage points for the state.
SchoolMatters.com is a free public service sponsored by the National Education Data Partnership, a collaboration among the Council of Chief State School Officers, Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Services and the CELT Corporation. To see this and other education analysis, go to www.schoolmatters.com.