Congrats to all the state champions, but anyone notice that all the state champions besides Central were from Independent School Districts, or private schools.

I would be curious to know how many independent schools compared to county schools. I would bet there is as many if not more independent schools. I guess the only difference being independent usually over covers a city and county covers the entire county.

There are 120 county school districts with the larger county districts having multiple high schools. There are around 55 independent districts with a few not even

playing football. It isn't even close with the number of county high schools compared to independent.

Congrats to all the state champions, but anyone notice that all the state champions besides Central were from Independent School Districts, or private schools.

 

Biggest reason for that is independent city school districts generally have been playing football forever, in some cases 100 years. Most county schools consolidated around the late-60s/early-70s, in many cases from small-town schools that didn't play football. As a result, in many county schools, football never took hold.

Congrats to all the state champions, but anyone notice that all the state champions besides Central were from Independent School Districts, or private schools.

 

Perhaps we should expand to 10 classes, so that no sector will be left out.

 

This of course is the basic premise for our present six class system.

Central falls under open enrollment as well. Sidebar, now that these kids can go wherever they want. I wonder if it's crippling the likes of Ballard, Eastern, etc....that they're not getting those kids.

I'm not sure what this shows as Kenton County schools are technically county schools but they have open enrollment to go to any of their schools. I am sure there are other county schools with multiple schools that allow open enrollment. And there are many schools that take tuition students.

Congrats to all the state champions, but anyone notice that all the state champions besides Central were from Independent School Districts, or private schools.

 

Does this mean the "Independents" should be classified as "privates". I'm not sure where you are going with this. Please explain!

Central falls under open enrollment as well. Sidebar, now that these kids can go wherever they want. I wonder if it's crippling the likes of Ballard, Eastern, etc....that they're not getting those kids.

 

Seems like Male has been hurt the worst by Central's ascension.

Seems like Male has been hurt the worst by Central's ascension.

 

Probably so.

Does this mean the "Independents" should be classified as "privates". I'm not sure where you are going with this. Please explain!

 

And the can of worms is opened...maybe.

Does this mean the "Independents" should be classified as "privates". I'm not sure where you are going with this. Please explain!

I really don't mean anything by it. I just thought that it was an interesting fact. I do not get into the whole public versus private, just stating an observation.

And the can of worms is opened...maybe.

 

Nah, it's been beat to death on here. 5053 just made a rookie mistake.

I'm still a rookie, so I won't care if I look dumb...

 

If county schools have open enrollment, and private schools can take anybody from anywhere, doesn't that put independent schools at a disadvantage? Either you live in the independent district or you pay tuition to go there - right? Seems more restrictive than the other two models. But, at least this year, independents seemed to have a disproportionate amount of success in state championships. We have ourselves a paradox. Why is that? What advantages do independents have that they are able to overcome the perceived disadvantage of restrictive enrollment opportunities?

 

Is there really a history of independents being more successful, or is this year a fluke?

I'm still a rookie, so I won't care if I look dumb...

 

If county schools have open enrollment, and private schools can take anybody from anywhere, doesn't that put independent schools at a disadvantage? Either you live in the independent district or you pay tuition to go there - right? Seems more restrictive than the other two models. But, at least this year, independents seemed to have a disproportionate amount of success in state championships. We have ourselves a paradox. Why is that? What advantages do independents have that they are able to overcome the perceived disadvantage of restrictive enrollment opportunities?

 

Is there really a history of independents being more successful, or is this year a fluke?

 

I wish I had the data handy to post in this thread, but some years ago I saw a graph in a newspaper article out west that compared the academic performance of independent (smaller) school districts, with that of county/consolidated (larger) school districts. The data was overwhelming that independent districts performed, on average (there's always outliers), much better than county/consolidated districts. Various possible explanations for this difference were explored, but the most logical had to due with the fact that smaller districts are generally more accountable to their population than larger districts.

 

In the few years I lived in Arizona, my school district was accountable to a population of over 150,000 people. My current district is accountable to roughly 17,000 individuals. In which case do I have a more direct voice to the school board, the principles, the curriculum directors, the athletic directors, the football coaches? And likewise, in which situation are the people in those positions more dependent upon me for assistance with, and support of their programs? The answer is obvious. And since smaller groups of people are more likely to hold consistent points of view, those people hear and respond to a much more unified voice, and in many cases, that unified voice says "we demand a winning football program."

 

What does the voice of your district say to it's leaders?