The best elementary school in the city of Haifa is Rambam (religious) along with Nofim in the Ramot Begin neighborhood

Which primary and six-year school is the best to send the children to?

The index published today gives the answer

The best elementary school in the city of Haifa is Rambam (religious) and Nofim in the Ramot Begin neighborhood. The leading six-year school is Hagivi (before it is bad, but it is a school that filters the students)

This week, the data of the MICAV in the schools in Haifa and the school climate were published. The findings show that the grades of the students of the schools in Haifa in the core subjects are 64 in mathematics, 47 in science, 70 in English and 51 in Hebrew.

Compared to the last few years, it can be seen that in Haifa there is a drop from a weighted score of 83 in 2009 to an average score of 64 in 2015. Selling or buying an apartment will be possible to know at what prices apartments were recently sold and parents of children will know if the schools in the vicinity are considered good.

As you may recall, up until a few years ago the Ministry of Education resisted publishing the results of the MITSAV in each of the schools because of the fear that parents would prefer to send their children to schools with high MITSAV scores. After the intervention of the Supreme Court, which obliged the Ministry of Education to publish the findings, they became accessible to every parent. In 2014, Mitzvam were not held because the then Minister of Education, Rabbi Shai Piron Mead Atid, opposed the tests. However, the current Minister of Education Naftali Bennett reinstated the tests. Piron claimed that the Mitzvam exams prevent meaningful learning, since the school year is dedicated to learning in preparation for the exam, because that is how a home is measured. The book, instead of assimilating the material with the help of exploratory learning, which will arouse interest in the students.

The index, which was published this week, examines the schools according to the Mitzvah tests, and also according to the school climate, as measured by questionnaires, which were passed between the students and the teachers. It should be noted that when you ask a teacher if he is worn out, the answer should be taken with limited confidence, since that they know that the school where they teach is harmed if they report burnout. In addition, when the students are asked if they are satisfied at school, it is possible that before the distribution of the questionnaire the school principal or one of the teachers asked the students to answer in a certain way or that the students themselves understand that when they say that they are not satisfied At school, the school was hit.

There are two schools in Haifa that report 100% student satisfaction and there is no attrition among the teachers, which raises questions about the number of students and teachers who answered the questionnaire. The schools are the Degania school in Kiryat Haim with 100% student satisfaction and - 0% teacher attrition and the Gabrieli school on Electric Street with 97% student satisfaction and - 0% teacher attrition.

At the top of the list in Haifa is the Rambam religious school with a score of 100 (11% of students who received a kick or punch during the exam month, 33% of teachers who reported burnout and 72% of satisfied students), followed by the Nofim schools in Ramat Begin, Reot, the school Ramot Elementary in Shaprintsak, Zichar Yosef, David Yelin in central Carmel, Arlozorov in Kiryat Haim Mizrahit, Ben Gurion in old Romema, Herzl School in the Carmelia neighborhood, Ilanot in Western Carmel, Yizraelia in Neve Shanan, Dinor, Alon School in Ramat Alon, Reali Matos, Beit Sefer Romma, Fichman, the six-year grade school in the center of Carmel, the builders in the Remez neighborhood, Ehud in the estate, Ironi Yavneh, Tscheranhovsky in Ramat Shaul, Alliance in the estate, Ironi H. in the center of Carmel, Kiryat Haim High School, Ironi C in Neve Shanan, Einstein in Ironi, Ironi A in the Kiryat Eliezer neighborhood, Degania in Kiryat Haim Maravit, Dror in Kiryat Eliezer, Nirim in Kiryat Eliezer, Tel Chai in Neve Sha'anan and the Gabrieli school on Electric Street.

In terms of the six-year schools, you can see that at the top of the list is the Reut school with 10% violence, 21% teacher burnout and 82% student satisfaction. After that, the Hogi school, Alliance, Urban XNUMX, Kiryat Haim High School, Urban XNUMX and Urban XNUMX.

It should be noted that there is a lot of opposition to the publication of the index, because a high score does not always necessarily indicate a "good" school and vice versa. Is a school where the students succeed in the Mitzvah exams in science, Hebrew, mathematics and English surely a school whose pedagogical practices are more worthy than a school where the Mitzvah scores are lower? It is very difficult to know. The indicators, which are tested with the help of questionnaires, are also problematic. It is enough that a large group of teachers are apparently not satisfied with the principal or their terms of employment and they decide to give low marks to the school, and the index may be lower. The same goes for the questionnaires, which the students fill out. It is possible that in schools on the ridge, students internalized that "the dirty laundry is washed at home", and therefore they give high marks to their school, even if they are not satisfied with the school.

As always, the school that closes the list and is also in one of the lowest places in the country is Gabrieli School. One would expect that a serious inspection would be done to verify how a school shows such poor achievements year after year, but even if such an inspection was done, the school's situation does not improve.