6 More Schools Fail The State’s Passing Grade.. 4 Others Get Passing Grade
The New York State Education Department has identified six New York City public schools, five of them middle schools, as performing so poorly that they are at risk of being shut down. Four others, the state said, would have been added to the list had the city not already decided to close them.
Four city schools, the state said, improved enough to come off the list, bringing the total citywide to 32. Of those, the city has already decided to close five.
To be designated by the state as failing, or among the “Schools Under Registration Review,” a school must fail to meet very basic, rudimentary performance benchmarks. If it does not improve in three years, it risks being shuttered.
The SURR list [pdf], as it is known, is different and much more dire than the list of schools designed as failing under the No Child Left Behind Law, which considers not only basic test scores but also other factors, like attendance and the performance among different subgroups of students (those who are Black or Hispanic, for example).
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