Talk:City School District of Albany

Sperling Best Places Data Questionable
This bit - "It spends an average of $9,227 per pupil and has a student to teacher ratio of 13.7 (the national averages are $6,058 and 15.9 respectively)" cites Sperling's Best Places as it source. This is not the current information Sperling's gives, but even the current information appears to be unreliable or dated, if for no other reason than the site gives the same data on expenditures per student for the several other localities in Albany County that I checked. After a bit of searching the Web, the only other source I've found for this data is the federal government's National Center for Education Statistics, but their data was last updated for FY 2010-2011. Albany's data is here. NYS may have more current data, but I didn't find it.

Absent another source of more current and accurate data, I think this bit should be deleted and will do so if there are no objections. If that's not acceptable, I will edit to use the NCES data with a note on the date of the data. samtha25 (talk) 23:45, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Document in the Karen language
It may be a good idea to have Karen-speaking Wikipedians to make a Karen language page on this district WhisperToMe (talk) 16:21, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Here is a Karen page: http://www.albanyschools.org/Academics/ENL-Refugee/ESL.page.Karen.pdf - http://www.webcitation.org/6bCHaTage

Help needed with Albany City page please
The following grossly outdated text appears on the Albany, NY page:

The City School District of Albany (CSDA) operates the city's public school system, which consists of 18 schools and learning centers;[221] in addition, there are 10 charter schools.[q] The number of students in CSDA has steadily decreased since 2000.[225][226][227] In the 2008–09 school year, 7,899 students were enrolled in the public school system.[225] The district had an average class size of 18,[225] an 81-percent graduation rate,[r] and a 5-percent dropout rate.[228] The district's 2010–11 budget is $202.8 million.[229] Although considered by the state to be one of the lowest-achieving high schools in New York, Albany High was listed as the nation's 976th best high school in a 2010 Newsweek/Washington Post report.[230]

It needs updating with reliable sources. Can anyone here help? I am aware there are now fewer charter schools; an additional public middle school; and a huge increase in enrollment, reversign the old trend.

Thanks, DMorpheus2 (talk) 18:57, 12 February 2016 (UTC)


 * That section has been deleted along with the need to update the paragraph. Note that the school district lists the North Albany Academy twice, once under elementary schools and once under middle schools, since it serves both functions - for now.samtha25 (talk) 18:57, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Unresolved discrepancy
Note that there is a discrepancy on the school district site regarding the top grade at two of the school district's elementary schools. I am attempting to get more information to clarify, but for the time being have chosen the grades information posts on the Our Schools pages over the information posted on the District Enrollment page. The schools in question are the Arbor Hill and Pine Hills elementary schools. The Our Schools pages say the top grade is 6; the District Enrollment page says 5.samtha25 (talk) 22:34, 12 May 2017 (UTC)