While Digby Regional High School placed around the middle of the report card, Islands Consolidated and St. Mary’s Bay Academy did not receive a grade.
Curry said it is because they did not have enough data to rate those schools. Islands Consolidated was near the top of the list for a couple of years.
“It’s always nice for schools to get recognition but when you’ve got a number of our schools they can’t even rate, you begin to wonder what is going on,” Curry said. “We have a lot of kids on individual program plans who do not write provincial exams (which is not considered for the report card) and they aren’t counting special needs students.”
He also noted AIMS scored fewer than half of existing schools.
Although he understands AIMS’ attempt at trying to say School “A” has better results than school “B”, he said it is a nebulous target.
AIMS president Charles Cirtwill could not be reached for comment.
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