Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Nebraska State test results released today

The Nebraska Department of Education will release the results of state testing from last spring. Tests were given in Reading, Math, Writing and Science. Students tested were in grades 3-8 and 11 for math and reading. Science was given at grades 5,8 and 11. Writing was given to grades 8 and 11.

Bancroft-Rosalie results:

Strengths-
B
Group Improvement in Reading  1st out of 248 schools. Group results from last spring compared to the year before (different students).  Student Growth in Reading  2nd  of  248 schools. Same students scored better last year than the year before. Student Growth in Math     13th  of  248Group Improvement in Math           49th  of  248Graduation rate     56th  of  182Average Reading score         125th  of  249. Average of all of our students who took the test.

Areas for improvement-
Average Writing score  166  of  249
Average Math score  223  of  249
Average Science score  242  of  249

We have begun looking at ways to improve the average math, science and writing scores. In science, we have to decide if we want to adopt the suggested high school curriculum for 9th and 10th graders, which does not include the study of plants and animals, or to continue with what we are doing and accept that our junior test scores may not be where we want them.