Test scores are improving but from a very low level of achievement. All four districts show their lowest performance on the 10 th grade Connecticut Academic Performance Test. New Haven and Bridgeport have higher high school graduation rates and lower annual dropout rates that Hartford and Waterbury. There appears to be no significant difference in mastery test scores among the districts for 1999. Hartford has shown the moved improved scores in the last five years.
New Haven has the lowest school attendance rates, especially for high school students.
Table 2 below shows educational performance data for each of the four districts from 1995 to 1999. Some of the requested data is not available. Attendance rate figures for 1999 are not yet available so the table shows rates for 1995 through 1998.