Palo Alto Unified school district (Data source)

County of Santa Clara

Just a coincidence? That's absurd.

It's a system that causes this pattern to repeat.

THIS chart shows what the follow-the-schedule method wants.

NOT what school board members want.

NOT what superintendents want.

More about this chart.

Palo Alto Unified math proficiency
Zero+ meets standard.

• Any result above zero is proficient; below is not proficient. • There is a 99% chance that results will remain the same in coming years, which is to say, between the Upper and Lower Control Limits (the gray lines).

Students would perform better the more years in school IF the follow-the-schedule method wanted that.

But that's not what it "wants"...and it's not a coincidence this pattern repeats (repeatedly).

The system (the follow-the-schedule method) "wants" schools to perform poorer, relative to grade level, the more years students spend in public school.

• Any result above zero is proficient; below is not proficient.

Palo Alto Unified math proficiency
Zero+ meets standard.
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Schools in Palo Alto Unified

Elementary School (Public) (13)
Addison Elementary Barron Park Elementary Duveneck Elementary
El Carmelo Elementary Escondido Elementary Fairmeadow Elementary
Greendell Herbert Hoover Elementary Juana Briones Elementary
Lucille M. Nixon Elementary Ohlone Elementary Palo Verde Elementary
Walter Hays Elementary
High Schools (Public) (2)
Henry M. Gunn High Palo Alto High
Intermediate/Middle Schools (Public) (3)
Ellen Fletcher Middle Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle
Adult Education Centers (1)
Palo Alto Adult Education
Alternative Schools of Choice (1)
Packard Children's Hospital/Stanford