LSO derby – high schools

The LSO derby is over, and the numbers are in. I posted some quick counts last week. (Look here). Now I’ve separated out the high school numbers, as reader Patrick suggested.

I made mistakes. I quickly decided which schools were high schools, which were middle schools, without checking carefully. In most cases I knew, and I was right. Lots of good guesses. I think I counted most 6 – 12 schools as middle schools, but I must have slipped. I omitted D75 schools since I was hopeless at determining the grade level.

The PSOs as a whole did best in the Bronx, by far. A third of Bronx schools went with a non-DoE support organization, compared to 13% in the rest of the City. As with the current generation of small schools, and with various iffy curricular initiatives, and with a disproportionate number of Leadership Academy incompetents, this reflects a sense that it is ok to use the children in the poorest, weakest borough as guinea pigs.

The empowerment numbers are nearly 50%, but they don’t include the larger high schools, which were much more likely to stay with an LSO. New Visions also has significant numbers of small schools.

(Detailed numbers are beneath the fold —>)

Here are the numbers by type of support organization: