Sentences with phrase «eighth graders passed»

At the Belhaven School in Linwood 100 percent of the eighth graders passed the language arts test and in Port Republic every eighth grader passed the science test.

Last year, 100 percent of eighth graders passed Massachusetts statewide exams in math and English, with 96 and 98 percent respectively scoring «proficient or advanced,» compared to a state average of 78 and 48 percent, and a Boston average of 59 percent and 28 percent.

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Tens of thousands of eighth - graders still face an uphill battle in high school despite the city's boast that more students passed the 2017 state Common Core exams.

At KIPP Ascend, where many fifth - graders start one or two grades behind in reading and math, after four years at the school, 100 percent of eighth - graders passed math and 94 percent passed reading on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test.

But a visitor rounding the corner would see a tame scene: fifteen or so eighth graders in a circle, passing on a series of gentle taps to each other's hands, until the chant stops and the last student to be tapped — with laughing and good - natured eye rolling — is «out.»

More than 200,000 third through eighth graders sat out New York's standardized tests this year, education officials said on Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.

Nationally, about 6 percent of seventh graders take algebra I. Students who take and pass algebra I typically then take geometry or algebra II in eighth grade because, presumably, they are prepared for it.

One hundred percent of eighth - graders at KIPP Academy Houston passed the Texas state tests last year.

City data show that only 43 % of the eighth - graders at The Equity Project passed state math exams in 2013, though that was higher than 26 % citywide.

Leslie Jacobs, a former member of the Louisiana State Board of Education, writes in The Wall Street Journal that in 2007, fewer than half of New Orleans» fourth - graders could pass the state's standardized tests, and only four out of 10 eighth - graders passed.

State math and English exams, which are given to all third through eighth graders, have historically been easier to pass than national math and English exams, which are given to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders around the United States.

For example, in the eighth - grade data from the US National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] show that students continue to struggle on very straightforward algebra problems: Only 59 % of 8th graders were able to find an equation that is equivalent to n + 18 = 23, and only 31 % of 8th graders were able to find an equation of a line that passes through a given point and with a negative slope (National Assessment of Educational Progress, Question Tool, 2011).

2016 test results show 26 percent of Arizona eighth - graders passed the math exam, but nearly 16,000 students taking accelerated math courses were left out of that statistic.

Graduation rates are up and nearly 60 percent of RSD third - through eighth - graders now pass state tests — but more than half of high school students fail.

Scores on the tests inched up this year, with 34.5 % of third - through eighth - graders passing math exams and 29.4 % earning proficient scores in English Language Arts.

In 2000, just 13 percent of California fourth - graders and 17 percent of eighth - graders passed in math.

Overall, 47 % of third - through eighth - graders passed the 2012 reading exams, up from 44 % last year.»

If 99 percent of black eighth - graders are not performing math at advanced levels, the odds are slim that they will pass the admissions test for Stuyvesant and other selective schools.

School report cards show 48 percent of METS ninth - graders passed their eighth - grade math and reading exams, above the state average.

On problem - solving - Three Rivers» highest performing area - 100 percent of fifth - and eighth - graders passed state benchmarks.

Three Rivers and Mitch also outperformed many schools in 2004 in the school districts that sponsor them: The percentage of fifth - and eighth - graders passing state benchmarks at Three Rivers Charter School exceeded averages for the West Linn - Wilsonville district in nine out of 10 tests in reading, math, science, writing and math problem - solving.