Percent of Community College Students Who Needed Remediation - Listed by their High Schools

The Dallas Morning News ran an article on March 21, 2010 that listed the percent of students who went to community college in Dallas (DCCC) and Collin County (CCCC) that needed at least one remediation class before taking college level classes and the local high school these students attended.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/032110dnmetremedial.417d43c.html

% who needed remediation - School/District - # who went to DCCC or CCCC from graduation class/total no. of grads in high school class ("unk" if not known)

26% - Frisco High/Frisco ISD - 127/389
27% - North/McKinney ISD - 115/378
27% - Hebron/Lewisville ISD - 113/unk

28% - Prosper High/Prosper ISD - 46/unk
28% - Centennial/Frisco ISD - 94/541
28% - Liberty/Frisco ISD - 119/unk

29% - The Colony/Lewisville ISD - 85/unk

35% - McKinney/McKinney ISD - 96/342
36% - Allen High/Allen ISD - 388/1,133
39% - Plano Sr. High/Plano ISD - 391/1,186

41% - Plano West/Plano ISD - 186/958

42% - Wakeland/Frisco ISD - 86/194
42% - Boyd/McKinney ISD - 126/315

45% - Plano East/Plano ISD - 391/1,171
45% - Flower Mound High/Lewisville ISD - 71/690

46% - Rowlett High/Garland ISD - 131/556
46% - Melissa High/Melissa ISD - 13/unk
46% - Royse City High/ Royse City ISD - 13/unk
46% - Rockwall-Heath/Rockwall ISD - 39/unk

48% - Little Elm High/Little Elm ISD - 58/unk

50% - Blue Ridge High/Blue Ridge ISD - 14/unk
52% - Wylie High/Wylie ISD - 218/500
53% - Celina High/Celina ISD - 36/unk
55% - out of state homeschoolers - 11/unk

55% - JJ Pearce/Richardson ISD - 67/459
55% - Poteet/Mesquite ISD - 85/378
56% - Horn/Mesquite ISD - 131/459

57% - Coppell High/Coppell ISD - 94/711
57% - N. Garland/Garland ISD - 126/423
59% - Mesquite High/Mesquite ISD - 120/504

60% - Richardson High/Richardson ISD - 86/391
62% - Berkner/Richardson ISD - 134/590
63% - Texas homeschoolers - 75/unk

65% - Garland High/Garland ISD - 111/489
66% - Sachse/Garland ISD - 119/512
66% - N. Mesquite/Mesquite ISD - 116/451
67% - Lake Highlands/Richardson ISD - 94/479

68% - MacArthur/Irving ISD - 82/421
68% - Rockwall High/Rockwall ISD - 40/459
68% - Pope John Paul II/private - 19/unk

70% - Booker T. arts magenet/Dallas ISD - 27/158
71% - Lewisville High/Lewisville ISD - 62/691
72% - White/Dallas ISD - 82/427

73% - Newman Smith/Carrollton-Farmers Branch - 70/365
73% - Anna High/Anna ISD - 22/unk

75% - Spruce/Dallas ISD - 32/190
75% - Woodrow/Dallas ISD - 63/234
75% - Highland Park High/Highland Park ISD - 16/520

76% - Bryan Adams/Dallas ISD - 59/277
78% - Creekview/Carrollton-Farmers Branch - 58/429

81% - Skyline/Dallas ISD - 210/862
81% - S. Oak Cliff/Dallas ISD - 42/243
81% - DeSoto High/De Soto ISD - 94/442
81% - GED recipients - 74/unk

82% - Willow Bend Academy/private - 22/unk
82% - Duncanville High/Duncanville ISD - 146/585
82% - Grand Prairie/Grand Prairie ISD - 100/432
82% - Hillcrest/Dallas ISD - 57/247

83% - Sunset/Dallas ISD - 116/393
83% - Nimitz/Irving ISD - 76/371
84% - Cedar Hill High/Cedar Hill ISD - 62/442

87% - Molina/Dallas ISD - 121/457
89% - Samuell/Dallas ISD - 35/252

90% - Irving High/Irving ISD - 62/363
91% - North Dallas/Dallas ISD - 67/230
95% - Lancaster High/Lancaster ISD - 39/237
98% - Kimball/Dallas ISD - 40/226

Community colleges can determine which students need remediation based on its own policies so there may be some differences with how DCCC and CCCC determine which students need remediation.

Texas Academic Decathlon State Results - March 2010

From the Texas Academic Decathlon website: http://www.txacadec.org/

Large School Division - 40 schools qualified to compete in the state contest.
Ranking from 1st place to 40th place based on overall scores.

Place - High School - District

1. Seven Lakes - Katy ISD
2. James E. Taylor - Katy ISD
3. J. Frank Dobie - Pasadena ISD
4. Nimitz - Irving ISD
5. Pearland - Pearland ISD

6. Sandra Day O'Connor - Northside ISD
7. Plano Sr. - Plano ISD
8. Coronado - Lubbock ISD
9. Lubbock - Lubbock ISD
10. Klein - Klein ISD

11. New Caney - New Caney ISD
12. Cinco Ranch - Katy ISD
13. Marcus - Lewisville ISD
14. Clements - Ft. Bend ISD
15. Clear Brook - Clear Creek ISD

16. Garland - Garland ISD
17. Franklin - El Paso ISD
18. Coppell - Coppell ISD
19. Keller - Keller ISD
20. Berkner - Richardson ISD

21. Lamar - Arlington ISD
22. John Horn - Mesquite ISD
23. Rowlett - Garland ISD
24. Flower Mound - Lewisville ISD
25. Monterey - Lubbock ISD

26. Hebron - Lewisville ISD
27. Coronado - El Paso ISD
28. Plano East - Plano ISD
29. King - Corpus Christi ISD
30. South Grand Prairie - Grand Prairie ISD

31. Elkins - Fort Bend ISD
32. Grand Prairie - Grand Prairie ISD
33. Morton Ranch - Katy ISD
34. Klein Collins - Klein ISD
35. Deer Park - Deer Park ISD

36. Tom C. Clark - Northside ISD
37. Duncanville - Duncanville ISD
38. Carroll - Corpus Christi ISD
39. Arlington - Arlington ISD
40. Debakey - Houston ISD


Medium School Division - 25 schools qualified to compete in the state contest
Ranking from 1st place to 25th place based on overall scores.

Ranking - School - District

1. Rockwall - Rockwall ISD
2. Friendswood - Friendswood ISD
3. Centennial - Frisco ISD
4. J.J. Pearce - Richardson ISD
5. Alamo Heights - Alamo Heights ISD

6. Liberty - Frisco ISD
7. Newman Smith - Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD
8. Montgomery - Montgomery ISD
9. Champion - Boerne ISD
10. Foster - Lamar Consolidated

11. Wakeland - Frisco ISD
12. Alice - Alice ISD
13. Highland Park - Highland Park ISD
14. Frisco - Frisco ISD
15. El Paso - El Paso ISD

16. The Colony - Lewisville ISD
17. Edison - San Antonio ISD
18. Flour Bluff - Flour Bluff ISD
19. Tuloso-Midway - Tuloso-Midway ISD
20. Nederland - Nederland ISD

21. Travis - Austin ISD
22. Aledo - Aledo ISD
23. Legacy - Mansfield ISD
24. W. B. Ray - Corpus Christi ISD
25. Luther Burbank - San Antonio ISD


Small School Division - 15 schools qualified to compete in the state contest.
Ranking from 1st place to 15th place based on overall scores.

Ranking - High School - District

1. John Paul II - private in Plano, TX
2. Splendora - Splendora ISD
3. Taylor - Taylor ISD
4. Estacado - Lubbock ISD
5. Sinton - Sinton ISD

6. Randolph - Randolph-Field ISD
7. Somerset - Somerset ISD
8. Bandera - Bandera ISD
9. Ranchview - Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD
10. Aubrey - Aubrey ISD

11. Lago Vista - Lago Vista ISD
12. Huntington - Huntington ISD
13. Prosper - Prosper ISD
14. Hawkins - Hawkins ISD
15. IDEA College Prep - charter

The Dallas Morning News High School Journalism Competition

From The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 2010
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/dallas/stories/DN-journalismday_11met.ART.East.Edition1.4bc1917.html

About 70 high schools participated in this journalism competition. There were two classes - Class A for schools with more than 2,000 students and Class B for schools with less than 2,000 students. Judges were from The Dallas Morning News.

Here is a list of winners - by high school only. Individuals names can be seen in DMN's article.

Hard News
Class A - Northwest (winner)
Hon. Mentions - Coppell, Plano

Class B - St. Mark's
Hon. Mentions - Lovejoy, Ursuline


Sports News Reporting
Class A - Midlothian
Hon. Mentions - South Garland, 2 from Coppell, Midlothian

Class B - St. Mark's
Hon. Mention - Lovejoy


Short Feature
Class A - Flower Mound Marcus
Hon. Mention - Rowlett

Class B - Hockaday
Hon. Mentions - Parish Episcopal, Plano West, Yavneh, 2 from Frisco Centennial, Crandall


Long Feature
Class A - Hebron
Hon. Mentions - 2 from Coppell

Class B - Hockaday
Hon. Mentions - St. Mark's, 2 from Episcopal School of Dallas, Crandall


Sports Feature
Class A - Hebron
Hon. Mentions - South Grand Prairie, Lewisville, Grapevine, Coppell, North Garland

Class B - Crandall
Hon. Mentions - Decatur, St. Mark's, Yavneh


Editorials
Class A - North Garland
Hon. Mentions - Dallas Skyline, Grapevine

Class B - Hillcrest
Hon. Mentions - Episcopal School of Dallas, McKinney, St. Mark's


Review
Class A - Hebron
Hon. Mentions - Trinity, Plano, Mesquite, South Garland, Arlington Martin

Class B - Episcopal School of Dallas
Hon. Mentions - 2 from Denton Ryan, Dallas Lincoln, Episcopal School of Dallas, Grace Prep, Crandall, St. Mark's


Hard News Photo
Class A - Midlothian

Class B - West Mesquite
Hon. Mention - Crandall


Sports Photo
Class A - Lewisville
Hon. Mentions - Allen, Keller

Class B - Lovejoy
Hon. Mentions - 2 from Lovejoy


Feature Photo
Class A - Richardson
Hon. Mentions - Midlothian, Grapevine

Class B - Crandall
Hon. Mentions - Crandall, McKinney Boyd


Headline Writing
Class A - South Garland
Hon. Mentions - Coppell, Plano East

Class B - Crandall
Hon. Mentions - McKinney, Crandall


Columnist Portfolio
Class A - Dallas Skyline
Hon. Mentions - Allen, Coppell

Class B - Greenhill
Hon. Mentions - Episcopal School of Dallas, Denton Ryan, Highland Park


Photo Portfolio
Class A - Midlothian
Hon. Mention - Lewisville

Class B - Crandall
Hon. Mention - Episcopal School of Dallas


Graphics Portfolio
Class A - Lewisville
Hon. Mention - Midlothian

Class B - McKinney
Hon. Mention - Yavneh


Cartoons/Illustrations
Class A - Grapevine
Hon. Mention - Lewisville

Class B - St. Mark's
Hon. Mention - Yavneh


Page Design Portfolio
Class A - Richardson
Hon. Mentions - Flower Mound Marcus, Allen, Coppell, Richardson

Class B - Hockaday
Hon. Mention - St. Mark's


Series or Project
Class A - Duncanville
Hon. Mentions - Midlothian, South Garland

Class B - Crandall
Hon. Mentions - St. Mark's, Episcopal School of Dallas


Best Website
Class A - Duncanville http://dhspantherprints.org/

Class B - Ursuline http://uabearfacts.com/
Hon. Mention - Crandall http://piratepressonline.com/PIRATE_PRESS/HOME.html


Best Newspaper
Class A - Midlothian
Hon. Mentions - Lewisville, Plano East

Class B - St. Mark's
Hon. Mentions - Crandall, Hockaday

Beal Bank Dallas Regional Science and Engineering Fair Results

From The Dallas Morning News, Feb. 28, 2010

Here is a list of winners from the Science and Engineering Fair listed by school, not by student names, so people can get an idea which schools produce winners in science and engineering.

Grand Prizes
Jr. Division
- Renner Middle (Plano ISD)
- Home schooler
- Heritage Middle (Frisco ISD)
- Frankford Middle (Plano ISD)

Sr. Division
- Plano East
- Plano Sr.
- Williams High (Plano ISD)
- Jasper High (Plano ISD)


Jr. Division - Life Sciences (these are all middle schools)

Animal Sciences
1st - Homeschooler
2nd - Spence (Dallas ISD)
3rd - Rice (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Iant Quranic Academy (private), Coleman (Cedar Hill ISD), Robinson (Plano ISD), Faubion (McKinney ISD)

Behaviorial and Social Sciences
1st - Coppell West (Coppell ISD)
2nd - Rice (Plano ISD)
3rd - Iant Quranic Academy (private)
Hon. Mentions - Dowell (McKinney ISD), Permenter (Cedar Hill ISD), Murphy (Plano ISD), Iant Quranic Academy (private), All Saints Catholic (private)

Biochemistry
1st - Hendrick (Plano ISD)
2nd - Faubion (McKinney ISD)
3rd - Irma Rangel (Dallas ISD)
Hon. Mention - Harmony Science Academy (charter)

Cellular and Molecular Biology
1st - Renner (Plano ISD)

Enviornmental Management
1st - Rice (Plano ISD)
2nd - Coppell West (Coppell ISD)
3rd - Rice (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Wilson (Plano ISD), Carpenter (Plano ISD), 2 from Rice (Plano ISD), Harmony Science Academy (charter), Coppell West (Coppell ISD)

Enviornmental Science
1st - Faubion (McKinney ISD)
2nd - Renner (Plano ISD)
3rd - Murphy (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Murphy (Plano ISD), Bowman (Plano ISD), Frankford (Plano ISD), Irma Rangel (Dallas ISD), Dowell (McKinney ISD), Evans (McKinney ISD)

Medicine and Health Sciences
1st - Curtis (Allen ISD)
2nd - Robinson (Plano ISD)
3rd - Heritage (Frisco ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Curtis (Allen ISD), Armstrong (Plano ISD), Longfellow Academy (Dallas ISD), Long (Dallas ISD), Cockrill (McKinney ISD), Field (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)

Plant Sciences
1st - Renner (Plano ISD)
2nd - Faubion (McKinney ISD)
3rd - Frankford (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - 2 from Wilson (Plano ISD)

TEAM Life Sciences
1st - Coppell East (Coppell ISD)
2nd - Wilson (Plano ISD)
3rd - Haggard (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - 4 from Murphy (Plano ISD), Carpenter (Plano ISD)


Jr. Division - Physical Sciences

Chemistry
1st - Coppell West (Coppell ISD)
2nd - Harmony Science Academy (charter)
3rd - Renner (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Irma Rangel (Dallas ISD), Renner (Plano ISD), Harmony Science Academy (charter), Hendrick (Plano ISD), Haggard (Plano ISD), Heritage (Frisco ISD)

Computer Science
1st - Coppell North (Coppell ISD)
2nd - Rice (Plano ISD)
3rd - Wilson (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Johnson (McKinney ISD), Hendrick (Plano ISD), Rice (Plano ISD)

Earth and Planetary Science
1st - Renner (Plano ISD)
2nd - Permenter (Cedar Hill ISD)
3rd - Dowell (McKinney ISD)
Hon. Mention - Schimelpfenig (Plano ISD)

Energy and Transportation
1st - Cockrill (McKinney ISD)
2nd - Iant Quranic Academy (private)
3rd - Rice (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Schimelpfenig (Plano ISD), All Saints Catholic (private), Evans (McKinney ISD), Carpenter (Plano ISD), Frankford (Plano ISD), Faubion (McKinney ISD)

Engineering, Electrical and Mechanical
1st - Heritage (Frisco ISD)
2nd - homeschooler
3rd - Hendrick (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - 2 from Frankford (Plano ISD), Carpenter (Plano ISD), Schimelpfenig (Plano ISD), Cockrill (McKinney ISD), Murphy (Plano ISD)

Engineering, Materials and Bioengineering
1st - Rice (Plano ISD)
2nd - Renner (Plano ISD)
3rd - Carpenter (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Bowman (Plano ISD), Christ the King Catholic (private), Haggard (Plano ISD), Rice (Plano ISD), Frankford (Plano ISD), Faubion (McKinney ISD)

Mathematical Sciences
1st - Rice (Plano ISD)
2nd - Harmony Science Academy (charter)
3rd - Wilson (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mention - Rice (Plano ISD)

Physics and Astronomy
1st - Coppell West (Coppell ISD)
2nd - Renner (Plano ISD)
3rd - Frankford (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Frankford (Plano ISD), Cockrill (McKinney ISD), Irma Rangel (Dallas ISD), Carpenter (Plano ISD), Wilson (Plano ISD), Armstrong (Plano ISD)

TEAM Physical Sciences
1st - Frankford (Plano ISD)
2nd - Curtis (Allen ISD)
3rd - Carpenter (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - 4 from Murphy (Plano ISD), 6 from Coppell East (Coppell ISD), 2 from Coppell North (Coppell ISD), 2 from Robinson (Plano ISD)


Sr. Division (these are all high schools or senior high schools)

Animal Sciences
1st - Clark (Plano ISD)
2nd - Vines (Plano ISD)
3rd - Clark (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Plano Sr. (Plano ISD), Bishop Lynch (private)

Behavioral and Social Sciences
1st - Harmony Science Academy (charter)
2nd - Clark (Plano ISD)
3rd - Harmony Science Academy (charter)
Hon. Mentions - Coppell (Coppell ISD), Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD), South Garland (Garland ISD), Talented & Gifted (Dallas ISD), Vines (Plano ISD), Harmony Science Academy (charter)

Biochemistry
1st - Williams (Plano ISD)
2nd - Plano Sr (Plano ISD)
3rd - Cedar Hill Collegiate (Cedar Hill ISD)
Hon. Mention - Jasper (Plano ISD)

Cellular and Molecular Biology
1st - Bishop Lynch (private)
2nd - Plano Sr. (Plano ISD)
3rd - Skyline (Dallas ISD)
Hon. Mention - Skyline (Dallas ISD)

Environmental Management
1st - Plano East (Plano ISD)
2nd - Vines (Plano ISD)
3rd - Clark (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Vines (Plano ISD), 2 from Williams (Plano ISD), Shepton (Plano ISD)

Environment Sciences
1st - Jasper (Plano ISD)
2nd - Clark (Plano ISD)
3rd - Williams (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Clark (Plano ISD), Bishop Lynch (private), Williams (Plano ISD), Jasper (Plano ISD), Shepton (PlanoISD)

Medicine and Health Sciences
1st - Williams (Plano ISD)
2nd - Williams (Plano ISD)
3rd - Plano Sr. (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Plano West (Plano ISD), 2 from Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD), 2 from Coppell (Coppell ISD), North Garland (Garland ISD)

Microbiology
1st - North Garland (Garland ISD)
2nd - Williams (Plano ISD)
3rd - Clark (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Jasper (Plano ISD), Shepton (Plano ISD), Clark (Plano ISD), Plano Sr. (Plano ISD), Harmony Science Academy (charter), North Garland (Garland ISD)

Plant Sciences
1st - Jasper (Plano ISD)
2nd - Clark (Plano ISD)
3rd - Williams (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - 2 from Jasper (Plano ISD), Bishop Lynch (private)

TEAM Life Sciences
1st - Shepton (Plano ISD)
2nd - Williams (Plano ISD)
3rd - Plano West (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Williams (Plano ISD), 2 from Plano Sr. (Plano ISD), 2 from Plano East (Plano ISD), Clark (Plano ISD)


Sr. Division - Physical Sciences

Chemistry
1st - Williams (Plano ISD)
2nd - Harmony Science Academy (charter)
3rd - Clark (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - 2 from Harmony Science Academy (charter), 2 from Jasper (Plano ISD), Plano Sr. (Plano ISD), Plano East (Plano ISD), Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)

Computer Sciences
1st - Plano Sr. (Plano ISD)
2nd - Jasper (Plano ISD)
3rd - Vines (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Williams (Plano ISD), Coppell (Coppell ISD)

Earth and Planetary Science
1st - Clark (Plano ISD)
2nd - Clark (Plano ISD)
3rd - Vines (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mention - Coppell (Coppell ISD)

Energy and Transportation
1st - Plano West (Plano ISD)
2nd - Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)
3rd - Plano East (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - 3 from Jasper (Plano ISD), 2 from Plano Sr. (Plano ISD), Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD)

Engineering, Electrical and Mechanical
1st - Jasper (Plano ISD)
2nd - Clark (Plano ISD)
3rd - Clark (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Williams (Plano ISD), 2 from Shepton (Plano ISD), Clark (Plano ISD), Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD), Cedar Hill (Cedar Hill ISD)

Engineering, Materials and Bioengineering
1st - Clark (Plano ISD)
2nd - Waxahachie Global (Waxahachie ISD)
3rd - Shepton (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Clark (Plano ISD), Shepton (Plano ISD), 2 from Plano Sr. (Plano ISD), 2 from Bishop Lynch (private)

Mathematical Sciences
1st - Clark (Plano ISD)
2nd - Jasper (Plano ISD)
3rd - Clark (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mention - Jasper (Plano ISD)

Physics and Astronomy
1st - Williams (Plano ISD)
2nd - Vines (Plano ISD)
3rd - Jasper (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - 2 from Plano Sr. (Plano ISD), Jasper (Plano ISD), Smith (Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD), homeschooler, Coppell High (Coppell ISD)

TEAM Physical Sciences
1st - Plano West (Plano ISD)
2nd - Plano East (Plano ISD)
3rd - Plano Sr. (Plano ISD)
Hon. Mentions - Plano Sr. (Plano ISD), Frisco (Frisco ISD), 3 from Clark (Plano ISD), Jasper (Plano ISD)