We’ve had a pretty normal winter in some ways. Other than a cold start to the month, it has been pretty much in the 40’s, and very little snow, and lots of sunshine. We are finally due for another snow event on Sunday – Monday (maybe just in time for the Super Bowl?), so I’ve [...]
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The state of Colorado has had a report card system they used with all of our public schools. They even make the information available to all of us, although necessarily in an easy to digest, comparative format. The new system they use is MUCH harder to compile comparisons with. I had a client inquiry this week [...] High school graduation rates have just been published for the entire state by the Colorado State Department of Education, so I thought I would update the story Colorado Springs Schools – You Get What You Pay For with current graduation rate information. Like the CSAP scores, it shows that the graduation rates are substantially higher for [...] Once in a while I like to play with numbers, and this week while adding some new school district information to the relocation section of my web site, I ran some numbers on the average home prices, by school district. Not so surprisingly, the figures came out somewhat in lockstep with with state CSAP scores. [...] This week the state released the annual School Accountability Report. The Colorado Department of Education keeps some pretty good information on their web site (www.cde.state.co.us). They have tons of stats on every school (not just district) in the state, and this report kind of sums things up. One of the first criteria (after price range!) [...] We have LOTS of luxury homes for sale right now in Colorado Springs. Yesterday was our tour of luxury homes for the south end of town. Our office’s Luxury Home Professional designation requires us to attend a monthly tour, and there were some beauties this time! My favorites were of course the most expensive, after [...] Today’s paper had an interesting article about graduation rates of Colorado Springs area high schools. It was interesting to me that the districts with the top test scores (12, 38 and 20) also had the highest graduation rates (typically mid 90’s). Also, a couple of districts that have typically suffered in the area of [...] Colorado Springs has a love-hate relationship with school test scores. They love them when the news is good, or when they assist in making a good school decision, and hate them when they are bad. The Gazette released the unofficial 3rd grade reading CSAP test scores in this morning’s paper, and as usual, it was [...] Colorado Springs school districts are something that people ask about a lot, because there are so many of them. The big 8 are Lewis Palmer D38, Academy D20, Colorado Springs D11, Falcon D49, Harrison D2, Cheyenne Mountain D12, Widefield D3, and Fountain Fort Carson D8. In addition, there are charter schools within some of these [...] |
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