Academic Trajectories of Newcomer Immigrant Youth

  1. Students who attended schools with higher rates of segregation were significantly more likely to be low achievers than either type of slow decliner.

  2. Students attending schools with greater proportions of low-income students were significantly more likely to be low achievers than improvers.
  3. Students attending high poverty schools were significantly more likely to be precipitous decliners than improvers.
  4. Being female was associated with a greater probability of being a high achiever than a low achiever.
  5. Similarly, being female was associated with being a high achiever than a precipitous decliner.
  6. High achievers, relative to the other groups, attended the schools that were the least segregated and had the fewest students qualifying for free lunch.