OSPI Releases State Test Results
Someone at OSPI has a sense of humor. Their press release is called, "State Test Scores in a Waiverless World."
Seattle's Test scores I have to say that those 10th grade scores are looking pretty good for reading and writing:
Reading: 81.2%, Writing 84.5%
Math and Science EOC - looks they are holding steady at about 61-64%, not great.
From the press release:
More than 90 percent of 12th graders in the Class of 2014 passed all of their assessment graduation requirements and younger grades had ups and downs, according to the official score release for the 2014 administration of Washington’s state tests.
“We’re holding steady from last year,” State Superintendent Randy Dorn said during a press conference this morning. “Students and teachers have worked hard to get here. At this point, there aren’t any significant changes.”
Results must be seen through a different lens this year. Last spring, the U.S. Department of Education refused to renew Washington’s waiver from some of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), including the reporting of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), for the 2014-15 school year. After a long summer of waiting and wondering, state test results finally reveal which schools met – and did not meet – AYP.
Seattle's Test scores I have to say that those 10th grade scores are looking pretty good for reading and writing:
Reading: 81.2%, Writing 84.5%
Math and Science EOC - looks they are holding steady at about 61-64%, not great.
From the press release:
More than 90 percent of 12th graders in the Class of 2014 passed all of their assessment graduation requirements and younger grades had ups and downs, according to the official score release for the 2014 administration of Washington’s state tests.
“We’re holding steady from last year,” State Superintendent Randy Dorn said during a press conference this morning. “Students and teachers have worked hard to get here. At this point, there aren’t any significant changes.”
Results must be seen through a different lens this year. Last spring, the U.S. Department of Education refused to renew Washington’s waiver from some of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), including the reporting of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), for the 2014-15 school year. After a long summer of waiting and wondering, state test results finally reveal which schools met – and did not meet – AYP.
| 2014 AYP determinations for a total of 2,176 schools | |
| MET AYP | DID NOT MEET AYP |
| 260 schools (11.9%) | 1,916 schools (88.1%): 1,401 schools are in a step of improvement
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| 2014 AYP determinations for a total of 2,176 schools | |
| MET AYP | DID NOT MEET AYP |
| 260 schools (11.9%) | 1,916 schools (88.1%): 1,401 schools are in a step of improvement
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| MSP proficiency rates by grade (as of August 27, 2014) | ||||
| GRADE | READING | MATH | WRITING | SCIENCE |
| 3 | 72.2 | 63.2 | -- | -- |
| 4 | 70.1 | 60.9 | 62.1 | -- |
| 5 | 72.6 | 63.7 | -- | 66.4 |
| 6 | 72.7 | 63.6 | -- | -- |
| 7 | 67.7 | 57.8 | 71.1 | -- |
| 8 | 71.6 | 55.9 | -- | 67.2 |
| Exit exam pass rates by class (as of August 27, 2014) | |||||
| SUBJECT | CLASS OF 2014 | CLASS OF 2015 | CLASS OF 2016 | ||
| Reading | 94.5% | 89.1% | 81.1% | ||
| Writing | 94.5% | 89.5% | 83.4% | ||
| Math | 92.1% | 83.8% | 75.8% | ||
| Science | (not required) | 82.2% | 76.3% | ||
| MET ALL ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION | 90.6% | 74.1% | 61.9% | ||
Comments
It may be heartening that the scores from grades 3-8 are holding roughly constant and not going down dramatically each year.
--- swk
"One Seattle school sees spike in test scores — so state is investigating"
Am I the only one who reads snark in the Times typically biased "reporting"? If they could they would have added:
"ONE Seattle sees spike in test scores - so (of course) the state is investigating this miracle."
As far as Beacon Hill, is it really out of the realm that they are measuring meaningful changes, as did Mercer?
parent
Much better to self report an anomaly than look like you were asleep at the wheel (best case) or complicit in a problem (worst case).
It looks to me like Wedgwood was, in fact a school that made AYP (not that I care, except for negative effects of that dismal and ridiculous law on the District). I don't know if it was alone or not. But it was grimly amusing to go through schools where 98 or 99 percent of kids passed a category (reading, math, etc., only to have a big red NO next to the question of whether that group met the standard (which was 100%) What a total joke!
Jan