BVSD is one of the top-ranked districts in the state, if it ain’t broke, why fix it?
BVSD is one of the top-ranked districts in the state because the primary predictors of student success are socioeconomic ones like household income and parents’ educational level. Given these driving factors, it is no wonder most BVSD students do well. The administration would like to take credit for BVSD’s ranking, but most of the highly ranked districts in the nation are located in communities not unlike Boulder in terms of socioeconomic status. The top school districts in the nation in 2006, according to a firm that helps corporations select expansion locations, were in State College, PA; Ithaca, NY; Lawrence, KS; Iowa City, IA; Sheboygan, WI; Charlottesville, VA; Eau Claire, WI; Madison, WI; etc. These are all college communities like ours, but BVSD does not even land in the top 25 of this list. There is a growing population of students in BVSD who are not born into favorable economic circumstances. BVSD has made little to no headway in closing the achievement gap between those stu
