OC和HURSYVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL在悉尼是什么地位呢？
引自悉尼全权威英文报纸悉尼晨锋报
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/early- ... html?skin=text-only
Early opportunities leave many behind
Date: January 30 2011
Jim O'Rourke and Paul Fraser
STUDENTS have a slim chance of winning a spot in a selective high school if they have not gained entry to classes for gifted and talented pupils in primary school, figures obtained under freedom-of-information legislation reveal.
At the top school for Higher School Certificate performers, James Ruse Agricultural High School, 105 of the 120 children who started in year 7 last year came from schools with opportunity classes.
The figures, compiled by the NSW Department of Education and obtained by The Sun-Herald, show that children who attend primary schools that offer opportunity classes are far more likely to have a chance of one of the 3500 highly contested places in selective high schools.
At North Sydney Girls, another top HSC performer, 96 year 7 students out of 150 had attended the opportunity class system.
Out of 180 year 7 students at Baulkham Hills High, 104 came from primary schools with the accelerated learning classes.
More than 3400 students attend classes in 73 primary schools that cater for accelerated learning. Each year about 15,000 sit an entrance exam for a spot in a selective school.
Hurstville Public is the top primary school for getting children into a selective high school, the figures show. Last year, 84 children from a total of 120 students made it into one of the top eight selective schools, including 23 who gained enrolment at Sydney Boys High and 20 who won places at North Sydney Girls.
Places in primary school opportunity classes are awarded on the basis of an annual selection test in literacy, numeracy and general ability as well as a school-based assessment.
Just 73 NSW primary schools – out of more than 1600 – offer opportunity classes.
The opportunity classes at Hurstville Public, offered to 120 students in years 5 and 6, are the most popular.
Last year, 610 students ticked Hurstville as their first choice when applying for one of 60 places.
Summer Hill Public was the second most popular, with 580 applicants naming it as their first choice, while Woollahra Public, with 442 applications, was third.
Most schools that offer accelerated learning have one class of 30 places, but larger schools including Hurstville, Summer Hill and Woollahra offer two classes in each year.
The deputy chairman of the Public Schools Principals Forum, Brian Chudleigh, said opportunity classes nurture gifted and talented children. There were concerns, however, about the impact on student achievement across schools.
"When you take those at the top out of the general comprehensive primary school pool and put them in schools with opportunity classes, it dilutes the overall quality of achievement at a particular school," Mr Chudleigh said.
" rincipals aren't real keen to see the best of their pool taken away from them and placed in OC classes."
Mr Chudleigh said it also put children in an unrealistic social context.
"They're mixing with children of the same academic ability and potential and so on and they're not learning necessarily to be tolerant and understanding and accepting of those of lesser capacity of their own."
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