Proposed CIML Split
- Thread starter Incyte
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Ames has had about 1300 students in grades 9 - 12 for many years. Ames High may have dropped in the enrollment rankings since other schools are growing, but the school hasn't shrunk.
The BEDS document only counts students in 9th-11th, as the number of seniors is irrelevant...they won't be there during the next year anyway. If anything, the document should count 8th graders at designated feeder middle/JH schools for a more accurate count.
Average household income decreasing - kids may have to work and help support family rather than participate in extracurricular activities, families may not be able to afford youth to participate in sports / get training / etc.
Well, BEDS begs to differ. 982 last year, 1028 the year before, and 932 this year.
http://www.ighsau.org/general/1415BedsNumerical.pdf
I think this is more accurate
http://high-schools.com/report/ia/public-school-enrollment-rank-in-iowa.html
Right. Because the enrollment numbers reported to the state aren't reliable enough.
Also, what year is that site using numbers from? It wasn't last year's enrollment since some schools I know the actual attendance of are off by at least 300 students according to that site.
Why is high-schools.com more accurate than the iowa girls high school ahtletic union or the state of iowa?
That high-schools.com has waukee at 726 and one Ankeny high school.
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I don't think you know the level of Marshalltown's suck. I think they had 4 sports all year with winning records, and they weren't above .500 by much. The high school is something like 43% hispanic and 99% of them only play soccer. The enrollment is 1600 but graduating classes are more 300-350.
Basketball program has been really strong, top 5 in the state in state tournament appearances. They were tied #1 with Dubuque for most appearances when I was in middle school but I haven't kept up on that stat since, just figure they'd have to be top 5.
Outside of the state runner up year in 2011, football has pretty much sucked for at least 2 decades.
All the best athletes played soccer when I was in high school.
Edit: I just looked it up, Mtown is 2nd in the state in state tournament appearances for basketball with 24, Dubuque Wahlert has 26, Davenport is 3rd with 23.
http://www.iahsaa.org/basketball/2012_BASK_STAT.pdf
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Reposting this for clarity as people don't really seem to get it. BEDS numbers are only 9th-11th grade. This way your graduated seniors don't count against you when they are no longer at your school. An unusually large or small class of 12th graders could otherwise skew the numbers when their count is used for classification, which would be the year after they graduate. Using 8th grade numbers would be very difficult for some schools, especially larger districts that don't have neat, direct feeders into certain high schools. Also, freshmen rarely matter when classifying schools for athletic competition. So 9th-11th grade counts are the best option.
Yeah they only have 3 grades 10-12th and they are still one of the biggest high schools in the state. Split valley and Waukee.
Leaving sports out of it, I can't imagine how you can argue 700+ per class is very helpful/effective/practical/fair or about a dozen other adjectives.
I'm glad I'm not in high school anymore, when we played valley it was easily the toughest game of the year.
