1. What Affects Asian Students’ School Performance Part 1- Midterm: Tiger Mother in LA Part 2 - final: Demographic Factors Jinghua Suo GIS Class Urban Planning UCLA 03. 15. 2011 Part 2 - final: Demographic Factors

2. Los Angeles Public High Schools (HS ) 646 Source: CA Department of Education http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap / 200 400 600 800 1000 API: Achievement Performance Index 881 800

3. 646 71HS Where Asian Students Significant 646 Source: CA Department of Education http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap / 600 800 1000 Asian Minimum 713 LA Mean 646

4. 7HS<800 Only 7 HS Asian API < 800 (CA Goal) 600 800 1000 7Asian HS < 800 Source: CA Department of Education http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ap / General Performance of Asian Students 64HS>800

5. 1 Mile Service Area around the 8 HS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Source: Map Share + ERSI Low API HSHi API HS > 800 < 800 200 400 600 800 1.La Mirada HS 2.Richard Gahr HS 3.Mayfair HS 4.Lakewood HS 5 Milikan HS 6 Wilson HS 7 PolyTechnic HS 8 Jordan HS

6. what are affecting these Asian Students ? 1LA Mirada 2 Richard 3 Mayfair 4 Lake Wood 5 Milikan 6 Wilson 7 PolyTechnic 8 Jordan 1. La Mirada 2. Richard Gahr 3. Mayfair 4. lakewood 5 Milikan Senior 7 Polytechnic 6 Wilson 8 Jordan

7. Compare Median Family Income $20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Income Matters Slightly Source: Social Explorer www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx

8. Compare Educational Level 5 10 15 20 25 30% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Parents’ Educational Level Matters Slightly Source: Social Explorer www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx

9. Compare Asian Population Density 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80% 1 2 3 4 Peer Pressure Matters Less Asian Pop Less Peer Pressure Less API Score 5 6 7 8 Source: Social Explorer www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx

10. Compare Divorced & Separated Rate 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Two Parents Matters Single Parent Lower API Score Source: Social Explorer www.socialexplorer.com/pub/home/home.aspx %Separate/Divorce

11. Model Image,Metadata & Skills Model: Clip : The four Low API Schools Serve areas & LA Census Tracts Metadata: LAHIgnSchl.Shapefile Includes all of the 450 Public High Schools in LA, With school names and addresses. Skills: Modeling, Metadata, Service area (Net work analysis ), Original data, Extract data-service area, Charts / images, Geocoding, Clip, Database, Graduated Symbol, Attribute Selection,

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