Annual report outlines Barlow students’ college acceptances

Written by Brian Gioiele, Hersam Acorn Newspapers
Monday, 02 November 2009 23:00

Joel Barlow High School seniors continue to make the grade when it comes to earning college acceptance.

That was according to the annual report presented by high school Principal Tom McMorran to the Region 9 Board of Education last Tuesday. Of the 1,555 applications submitted by high school seniors this past year, there were 800 acceptances — 24% of which were from the “most competitive” colleges and universities.

Mr. McMorran said that 53% of the acceptances were from highly competitive schools, while 63% were from very competitive facilities.

The annual report, which is available on the school district’s Web site, also provides details on course grades for grades 9-12 in spring 2009 as well as CAPT and SAT scoring averages.

For the spring 2009 grades, 36.51% of students in grades 9 through 12 scored As; 35.77% scored Bs; and 17.88% scored Cs.

On the CAPTs taken this year by the class of 2011, Joel Barlow placed 15th in the state (74.9%) in math; 18th in the state (69.3%) in science; 19th in the state (71.9%) in reading; and 11th in the state (84%) in writing.

In the SATs, Joel Barlow finished sixth of the seven towns in its DRG in both verbal and writing and seventh in math. In writing, the top 10% of Joel Barlow students scored a 703 average, with the next 10% averaging 647. In math, the top 10% averaged 669, the next 10% averaged 614. In critical reading, the top 10% averaged 671, the next 10% averaged 606.