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community
partnerships
There are also some notable differences
geographically and between high schools
and elementary schools in the types of
partner programs that are conducted in the
district. Each row in the graphic on the next
page shows the average number of each
program type (Field Trips, Resources, InSchool Programs, Residencies, Professional
Development, Out-of-School Programs, and
Other) that was conducted in the schools
that make up each of the district’s networks.
Darker shaded circles indicate that the schools
in that network enjoyed more of that type of
partnership than did other networks. Lighter
shaded circles indicate fewer programs of that
type per school in the network.
The first notable trend is the difference
between elementary and high schools in the
number of program types that were conducted
per school. On the whole, the circles in the
high school graphic appear darker than those
in the elementary school graphic. This trend
is evidenced in the fact that, on average,
high schools in the district had 15 program

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types whereas elementary schools had 13
program types. The graphic also illustrates
the trends described above in that field trips
and resources are the two most common
program types among both high schools and
elementary schools.
Comparing columns in the graphic illustrates
how these program types are distributed across
the district. For example, in the elementary
school graphic, the cell in the Out-of-School
row and the Network 3 column is lightly
shaded. This draws attention to the fact that,
for the 19 reporting schools in this network, a
total of only 13 Out-of-School program types
were recorded. This contrasts with the 55
Out-of-School program types that were
recorded for the 26 schools in Network 2.
Across both elementary and high schools,
Networks 2 and 8 tend to have the largest
average number of program types, where
Network 12 and Charter schools tend to
have the fewest. A closer examination of this
graphic may help schools and partners identify
opportunities for the coming school years.