Just added: 2007-2008 FCAT results and school grades, 2008-2009 attendance zone maps

Just added to the 29 Palm Beach County public school pages included in the current version of Backyard Post: FCAT results and school grades for 2007-2008 and attendance zone maps for 2008-2009. Why only those 29 schools? Because we’re still in the testing and development phase. Among other things, that means our coverage is limited to incorporated West Palm Beach. Our 29 current schools either draw students from West Palm Beach or are magnet schools physically situated in the city. We have all the same data for the other 134 traditional public schools that the Palm Beach County school district will open this fall, but it’s going to be awhile before we switch them on, so to speak.

One other change so seemingly minor and incredibly microscopic that I’m including it here merely as a test of your dedication to following every little move made by the Backyard Post team: We finally started labeling school years with both calendar years that the school year spans instead of only the calendar year in which the school year began.

So that was pretty clear, right?

We used to label school years like this: 2007. Now we label it like this: 07-08. The old way confused everyone and even everything (plants, staplers and other inanimate objects) who/that ever saw it, including ourselves. Let’s just forget it ever happened, shall we? Seriously, just drop it already.