Last year, only 18 percent of its students were reading at or above grade level.

In 1999, only 35 percent of its students read at or above grade level.

Another is that less than half the city's public school students read at or above grade level.

Ask this: What does the school do when a child is not reading at grade level?

In 1984, 53.5 percent of the students read at grade level or above.

In 1990, 92 percent of the school's students were reading at or above grade level.

The results show 30.9 percent of its 30,000 students reading at or above grade level.

Among the 835 students, 71.7 percent read at or above grade level.

"We have a large population of children who are not reading at grade level."

Last year, 41.2 percent of the students were reading at or above grade level.