Six Season Analysis Summarized Results
Here are the summarized results: (click on link for detailed analysis with some additional statistical tools)
Division I: Overall, private schools
outperform public schools 1.37:1
Region 1: Outperformance is 1.73:1
Region 2: Outperformance is 1.46:1
Region 3: No private schools
Region 4: Outperformance is 1.27:1
Division II: Overall, private schools
outperform public schools 1.88:1
Region 5: Outperformance is 1.92:1
Region 6: Outperformance is 1.97:1
Region 7: Outperformance is 1.67:1
Region 8: Outperformance is 2.11:1
Division III: Overall, private schools
outperform public schools 1.68:1
Region 9: Outperformance is 1.73:1
Region 10: Outperformance is 1.98:1
Region 11: No private schools
Region 12: Outperformance is 1.72:1
Division IV: Overall, private schools
outperform public schools 1.18:1
Region 13: Outperformance is 1.21:1
Region 14: There is an underperformance. Ratio is .775:1
Region 15: Outperformance is 1.52:1
Region 16: There is an underperformance. Ratio is .995:1
Division V: Overall private schools outperform
public schools 1.31:1
Region 17: Outperformance is 1.41:1
Region 18: Outperformance is 1.12:1
Region 19: Outperformance is 1.72:1
Region 20: Outperformance is 1.15:1
Division VI: Overall private schools
outperform public schools 1.38:1
Region 21: Outperformance is 1.18:1
Region 22: Outperformance is 1.03:1
Region 23: Outperformance is 1.89:1
Region 24: Outperformance is 1.38:1
These results tend to indicate that there is, indeed, a significant outperformance enjoyed by private/parochial institutions and the multiplier (if designed to create absolute equity) should be set at somewhere between 1.18 and 1.88, depending on what percent of that outperformance is attributed to factors that one one would what to correct for.
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