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Minister releases Indicators 2004 - A Report on Schools Education Minister John Ottenheimer today released Indicators 2004 - A Report on Schools, which provides school-level data on each school in Newfoundland and Labrador. "Indicators 2004 will be of interest to educators, administrators, researchers and parents throughout the province," Minister Ottenheimer said. "It provides a broad range of statistical data on each of our schools, including information on student achievement, graduation rates, attendance rates, participation in extra-curricular activities and average class size." Minister Ottenheimer noted that public interest in school-level data, particularly student achievement data, is very high and increasing all the time. "People want to know how their children, and their schools, are performing - and where there is room for improvement," Minister Ottenheimer said. "This report is designed to be used as a tool to enable a school community to identify areas which need attention and develop strategies to improve performance. It is also part of the Department of Education's continuing commitment to be accountable to the people it serves." Indicators 2004 was produced in cooperation with the province's 11 school districts. While information on individual schools is also available through the department's Web site, this is the first time such a wide range of statistical information of this nature has been assembled in one streamlined document. "This is the first of what will be regular Indicators reports which will, in the years to come, serve to highlight individual school performance and record changes over time," the minister said. "It is important that we provide information to a school community that will help them make their school the very best it can be." School-level information contained in the document, as well as historical data, is available through the Department of Education's K-12 School Profile System, accessible on-line at: //www.gov.nl.ca/edu/pub/ind04/main.htm Media contact: Lynn Salter, Communications, (709) 729-0048 2004 02 26 2:00 p.m. |
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