In 2010, reading proficiency rates were about 75, 86, and 76 percent for the third,
fourth and fifth grades respectively; math proficiency rates were about 82, 94 and 78 percent in the same grades.
Not exact matches
By 1999 Feinberg, with
fifth - through eighth - graders in trailers on a school parking lot,
and Levin, with the same
grade levels on the
fourth floor of a public school surrounded by housing projects, had the best performing middle schools in Houston
and the Bronx,
respectively.
With Austin, Eli,
and Isabel in sixth,
fifth,
and fourth grades respectively, I am in a state of shock when I think that we have officially grown out of early childhood
and are veering wildly toward adolescent drama (but I will save that for another column).