Sentences with phrase «graders scored»

An issue brief released in May 2014 by RI Kids Count found that, while RI students are making progress in reading, large achievement gaps persist — in fact, only 19 % of our low - income fourth graders scored at the proficient level in the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

And only 8 percent of African - American eighth - graders scored «proficient» or higher in math, down a percentage point from four years ago.

In fact, more than half of all 12th graders scored below the «basic» level on NAEP, known as «the nation's report card.»

Utah's fourth grade students scored about five points above the national average and it's eighth graders scored nine points higher.

In 2006, 90 percent of Claresholm's 3rd graders scored at Proficiency or higher on a standardized reading assessment — but these scores meant that 10 percent of Claresholm students were not reading successfully.

In reading, American fourth graders scored 556, above the international average.

In the final year that students were tested using CST — and on the old state standards — 67 % of fourth - graders scored proficient or higher.

Only one percent of the city's black and Latino eighth - graders scored at Advanced levels.

Last year, about 50 % of 10th graders scored proficient or advanced on those reading and math tests.

To make comparisons between schools, we need to know that in 2017, only 9 % of Ballou 10th - graders scored proficient or above on DC's state English Language Arts test, compared with 85 % at the district's School Without Walls.

Similarly, second - graders scored in the 40th percentile in math in 2007, then jumped as third - graders to the 93rd percentile in 2008.

So guess how many Tennessee fourth graders scored proficient on this federal test?

In 2015, only 26 % of Mississippi 4th graders scored proficient or above in reading and only 30 % scored proficient or above in math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Nation's Report Card.

Across the U.S., about 32 percent of students in both grades were proficient or higher in reading, and about 40 percent of fourth - graders and 34 percent of eighth - graders scored tested proficient or higher in math.

This includes the ever - woeful South Carolina, whose reading and math proficiency targets declined from an A to a D +, according to Education Next «s analysis; the Palmetto State claimed that 54.9 percent of fourth - graders scored «exemplary» or its version of proficient and advanced levels in 2011, even though NAEP shows that only 36 percent of fourth - graders were performing that well.

So here's what Maltese and Hochbein did: They looked at how well all of a school's tenth graders scored on the «end - of - course assessments» to determine if the school was improving or declining.

Fourth - grade students recorded the highest gain — four points — among 21 urban school systems since 2011; fourth - graders also scored higher in math, and eighth - graders scored higher in reading.

Wisconsin fourth graders scored at the national average and eighth graders scored above the national average in understanding the meaning of words, according to the first vocabulary results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

On average, Crown Prep's students increase two years in their reading level within just the first 9 months of attending the school, and in science, 72 % of their fifth graders scored proficient or advanced on state tests.

Beloved by students and parents alike, in 2010 her seventh graders scored at the 98th percentile on the city math test, many already hitting the top score (and thus unable to show growth).

In 2014, the last year that N.J. administered ASK, 67.2 percent of fourth graders scored proficient or advanced proficient in language arts and 74.9 percent scored proficient or advanced proficient in math.

But 57.5 percent of fifth - graders scored proficient on the new science exam in 2016.

But only 31 percent of black 10th - graders scored in the higher categories — proficient and advanced — on the most recent math exam.

In Massachusetts, for instance, where educators have sharply raised math scores in recent years by carefully reworking standards and instruction, 57 percent of fourth graders scored at or above proficient on the latest test.

On average, the nation's fourth graders scored 240 on a 500 - point scale, just as they did in 2007.

On the most recent test, 39 percent of fourth graders and 34 percent of eighth graders scored at or above the proficient level.

Only 26 percent of 4th graders and 17 percent of 8th graders scored high enough on the NAEP to be considered grade - level proficient in math.

Even in some districts where eighth - graders scored higher, administrators were at a loss to explain the increase.

In 2011, 32 percent of Wisconsin 4th graders scored proficient on NAEP's reading test and 39 percent scored proficient on the math test.

The district was returned to local control in 2012, even though only 14 percent of the district's third graders scored proficient or advanced on the state reading test that year.

In English language arts, 58 percent of Madison's black third - graders scored at the lowest level, now called below - basic, compared with 13 percent of white students.

Students entering the fifth grade here are often several years behind in both subjects, but last year, 100 percent of seventh graders scored at a level of proficient or advanced on state standardized math tests.

Only 15 percent of fourth graders scored proficient on the state math test.

More than 75 percent of eighth graders scored proficient or advanced on the math exam, a big change from just 9 % in 2008.

In 1999, 20 % of fourth graders scored at advanced and proficient levels in English; in 2000 only 9 per cent reached this level.

Just 55.5 percent of Colorado fifth - graders scored proficient or advanced in writing, 1.7 percentage points less than in 2013.

African - American 12th - graders scored on average 30 points lower than their white peers on the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress math exam, while Hispanic students scored 22 points lower.

87 % of Brooke Matapan Eighth Graders scored Proficient or Advanced on both Math and ELA in the 2015 - 16 PARCC.

Only 37 percent of fourth graders scored proficient, and just 1 percent scored advanced, on the 2015 test.

The same 18 second - graders scored in the 78th percentile in math in the spring.

Fourth graders scored a 224 in math, four points lower than in 2013.

Yet more than 60 percent of the school's third - graders scored proficient or advanced on state tests in English language arts last year.

That is, graders scored the essays of students who'd been taught traditional grammar lower than those of students who had not received the lessons.

The same first - graders scored in the 92nd percentile in math.

Eighty - four percent of its fourth graders scored proficient or advanced in English language arts on the Smarter Balanced Assessment compared to 39 percent for the rest of the state.

Overall 77 percent of eighth - graders scored advanced or proficient on math, up from 76 percent last year.

About 93 percent of the state's 11th - graders scored proficient or better on the High School Proficiency Assessment in Language Arts, an increase of one point over last year, and almost 86 percent were proficient in math, a 2.3 point gain.

But at those three, they found that KIPP's fifth - graders scored significantly higher on California Standards Tests than non-KIPP fifth - graders, with the difference ranging from 6 to 33 percentage points.

They alleged that 42 percent of New Orleans district's fourth - graders and 53 percent of its eighth - graders scored «unsatisfactory» on Louisiana's statewide promotion exam in 1999.

The report released last week shows that 8th graders scored 264, on average, on a 500 - point scale on the 2009 exam.