Just modify the appropriate value in the args section to be either 0 or 1. If you use this routine please leave all comments in place so that others may benefit as well. Respondents are asked about learning, safety, and various aspects of the school's environment. At the end of the survey, they're asked to grade their school on an A to F scale. The results, says Rainwater, are useful in school improvement efforts.
Principals establish committees of parents and staff to review results and plan changes.
Those sorts of issues are flagged in the reports. To get a sense of how the schools are faring in the eyes of the adults who know them best, we've ranked the schools from highest to lowest grades after Kiefer's office averaged four years of scores, from 1996 to 2000. Kiefer suggests that's because enrollment is capped at 160 and students are screened for admission, so only most motivated get in. These include Sherman Middle School and Emerson, Mendota, Schenk and Hawthorne elementary. This is attributed to different reasons, ranging from weak principals to the fact that these neighborhoods are largely working class and have a high poverty levels.