Nice View of the NR School System
If you go to this government site, you can get a real nice snapshot of the key metrics of how the NR School system is doing. How are they spending the money and how the NR school system fares versus the stat average.
Here are some interesting items given the current future vote to get an override to fund the added needs for the public school system:
- The average spend per pupil for North Reading is $8,429 in 2006 versus a state average of $11,210 or 26% lower.
- The Student/Teacher Ratio for 2006/2007 in NR was 15.5 to 1 versus a state average of 13.2 to1.
- The graduation rate was a nice 93.6% versus the state average 80.9% (2006/2007 school year).
As I mentioned in a previous post, money invested in the school systems is to me a no-brainer as long as the MCAS / school rankings go up along with the investment.