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Passing Rates by type of school
English Mathematics
2013 2012 2013 2012
Traditional High School 86.4% 72.2% 64.6% 55.1%
Upgraded High School 46.6 33.8 21.2 17.0
Technical High School 51.9 36.4 26.0 23.6
New Schools 57.1 -- 30.5 --
Average 63.7 52.0 42.2 37.5
Doing so allows one to notice that, historically, Upgraded and Technical high schools provide substantially fewer passing CSEC scores than
their Traditional high school counterparts.
Dr. Ralph Thompson also advised that pass-rates be derived from the total grade-11 cohort, rather than the total number of students who sat
for the exam. By way of context, 54% of students in the grade-11 cohort last year sat for Mathematics, and 63% sat for English (these proportions
being basically stable over the last three years).
If one factors the number of students who did not take the test but who should have been eligible, one will receive a different perspective on
the success of this years’ grade-11 student body.