We used data envelopment analysis to measure the relative performance of New York State school districts in the 2011-2012 academic year and provided detailed alternative improvement pathways for each district. We found that 201 of the 624 (32.2 %) school districts with one or more high schools and 28 of the 31 (90.3 %) school districts with no high school were on the performance frontier. Using a mixed orientation, we found evidence that FTE teachers could be reduced by 8.4 %, FTE teacher support personnel could be reduced by 17.2 %, and FTE building administration and professional staff personnel could be reduced by 9.4 %. In addition, we found that the percentage of students who score 3 or 4 on the English exam could increase by 4.9 % points, 5.0 % points on the mathematics exam, and 5.8 % points on the science exam and the average graduation rate could increase by 5.4 % points.
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Sexton, T. R., Comunale, C., Higuera, M. S., & Stickle, K. (2016). Performance benchmarking of school districts in New York state. In International Series in Operations Research and Management Science (Vol. 238, pp. 439–462). Springer New York LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7684-0_13
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