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Neenah,

If you look closely at the individual components of the GoLocal article, Cranston West scores higher than both Pilgrim and Vets on Math NECAP, Writing NECAP, writing and math SAT scores, and it scores higher than all three of our high schools in 4 year graduation rate. Cranston performs much more closely to Toll Gate and Cranston East scores higher than Vets on all NECAP measurements - the only common measuring stick that the state has. My point is simply this, a large high school of 1500 kids scores, as a practical matter, just as well our best high school. I'm sure another organization could come up with a ranking system that weights variables differently than GoLocal has and show a fairly different result. And my main point is that Cranston is a higher performing district (to be clear a slightly higher performing one) overall than we are - just look at RIDE data on all NECAP scoresfrom 2008-2012 by City. Without the charters we rank anywhere from 21st to 27th out of 37 system depending on the year. Add in the Charters and we're anywhere from 25th to 34th out of 50. I'd add that on the Golocal listing, North Kingstown High with 1400 kids out performs all of our highschools. Coventry High w/ 1600 kids outperforms all of our high schools on 2 of the 3 NECAP measurements yet is ranked one above Warwick Vets. i concede that there is still open debate over what a 'right size' school is but if one holds that a 1200-1500 high school is too big and detrimental to learning, then one has to concede that for the last decade or so we've been doing our students a disservice.

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