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Results a mixed bag for local high schools in Fraser Institute’s Alberta High Schools report

Oct 10, 2017 | 5:30 AM

LETHBRIDGE – The Fraser Institute released its Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools over the weekend, and some Lethbridge area schools fared well in the report while others didn’t fare so good.

Immanuel Christian High School scored a rating of 7.4 out of 10, and also ranked 52nd out of 274 high schools in Alberta which was the best among the local high schools.

Catholic Central scored a 6.0 rating, and was ranked 146th, while L.C.I. pulled a 5.4 and sits at 185th.

Chinook High School ranked 194th with a rating of 5.3, and Winston Churchill was the worst rated and ranked of the five local high schools at 4.9 and 207th in the province.

The ratings are all out of 10, and based on eight academic indicators.

Those include average exam mark, percentage of exams failed, school vs exam mark difference, Language Arts gender gap, Math gender gap, courses taken per student, diploma completion rate and delayed advancement rate.

Chinook’s rating dropped by 0.6 year over year, while L.C.I. and Catholic Central both saw their ratings rise by 0.1 over last year. Winston Churchill had the worst drop year to year of nearly a full percentage point from 5.8 in 2015 down to 4.9 in 2016.

Only two high schools scored perfect 10.0 ratings in Alberta, Webber Academy and Rundle College in Calgary.

The full statistical breakdown for all the high schools in the province can be found here.

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