Published: August 01, 2008 01:40 pm            

Schools receive report cards

Ada — The Education Oversight Board recently announced it has established a new performance benchmark for schools which will be reflected in the newest version for the popular School Report Cards released by the Office of Accountability. “The new performance benchmark is a rigorous one that identifies the top schools across the state,” said Susan Field, chairman of the Education Oversight Board.

“The new mark is in addition to an earlier benchmark and identifies those schools where 70 percent of the students score Satisfactory or above and where 25 percent of the students score Advanced on every subject tested at a given grade level,” said Field.

The benchmark applies to the results of the 2007 Oklahoma School Testing Program for Regular Education students, grades three through eight, that have attended the same school for a full academic year.

“The Board commends the 52 schools that met the EOB’s new benchmark. These schools showed very high performance and they will receive one or more stars on their School Report Cards,” said Field.

“The time was right for a new benchmark,” said Kathleen Wilcoxson, co-chairman of the Senate Education committee.

“A number of years ago when the Board established the original 70 percent Performance Benchmark, there were only a few schools that met the challenge and received a checkmark; but now, most schools get the checkmark,” Wilcoxson said.

Latta Elementary School and Latta Junior High School met the state’s benchmarks in all subjects. Latta High School students scored above state averages in Algebra I, English II, U.S. History and Biology I on High School End-of-Instruction Tests.

Third grade students were the only students to meet the benchmark at Pickett-Center Elementary School. Scores were not available for fourth through seventh grade. However, eighth-grade students scored above state averages in math, reading, science and writing. Eighth grade history, constitution and government was the only subject where less than 70 percent of students scored satisfactory or above. Only 57 percent made the satisfactory and above score, compared to a statewide average of 74 percent.

Allen Elementary School students in grades three, four, six, seven and eight met the state’s benchmarks. Fifth-grade students scored above state averages in math, reading and writing. However, 52 percent made the satisfactory and above score in social studies compared to a statewide average of 74 percent. In science, 65 percent made the satisfactory and above score compared to a statewide average of 87 percent.

Allen High School students scored above state averages in Algebra I and English II on End-of-Instruction Tests. Students scored 52 percent above state averages in U.S. History, compared to a statewide average of 73 percent. In Biology I, students scored 48 percent above state averages, compared to a statewide average of 57 percent.

Vanoss Elementary School students in grades three through eight met the state’s benchmark in all subjects. Student performance in the high school was above statewide averages in English II and Biology I. However, 76 percent made satisfactory and above scores in Algebra I and 72 percent in U.S. History, compared to a statewide average of 78 percent and 57 percent respectively.

Byng Elementary School students in grades four through six, Homer Elementary students in grades three through five and Byng Junior High School students met the state’s benchmarks in all subjects.

Francis Elementary third grade students scored above state average in reading but 67 percent made satisfactory and above scores in math, compared to a statewide average of 80 percent.

Byng High School students scored above state averages in English II, U.S. History and Biology I but 57 percent scored satisfactory and above in Algebra I, compared to a statewide average of 78 percent.

Ada’s Washington Grade Center (grades three through four), Willard Grade Center (grades five through six) and Ada Junior High School (grades seven through nine) all met the state’s benchmark in all subjects. Ada High School students scored above statewide averages in English II, U.S. History and Biology I. In Algebra I, 47 percent of the students scored satisfactory and above compared to 78 percent statewide.

Stonewall Elementary School students in grades three and four and McLish Middle School met the state’s benchmarks. However, 65 percent of McLish Middle School students in grade six made satisfactory and above scores in math, compared to a statewide average of 82 percent. In reading, 76 percent of McLish Middle School students in grade six made satisfactory and above scores, compared to a statewide average of 84 percent.

Students in grade seven scored above the state average in reading and geography but 53 percent made satisfactory and above scores in math, compared to a statewide average of 79 percent.

Eighth-grade students scored above state averages in math, reading, science and writing, but 63 percent made satisfactory and above scores in history, constitution and government, compared to 74 percent statewide.

Stonewall High School students scored above state averages in English II and Biology I on High School End-of-Instruction Tests. However, 71 percent of the students made satisfactory and above scores in Algebra I, compared to a statewide average of 78 percent. In U.S. History, 57 percent of the students made satisfactory or above average score, compared to a statewide average of 73 percent.

Roff Elementary School students in grades three, four, six and seven met the state’s benchmarks. Students in grade five scored above the state averages in social studies, science and writing.

However, it fell behind in math and reading. Compared to a statewide average of 88 percent, 69 percent of Roff fifth-grade students made satisfactory of above average scores in math.

In reading, 81 percent of the students made satisfactory or above average scores, compared to a statewide average of 86 percent.

Eighth-grade students scored above the statewide average in science and writing.

They scored the exact percentage as the statewide average in history, constitution and government. In reading, 84 percent of the students made satisfactory or above average scores, compared to a statewide average of 85 percent.

In math, 68 percent of eighth-grade students at Roff made satisfactory or above average scores, compared to a statewide average of 83 percent.

Roff High School students fell below the state’s average in Algebra I, U.S. History and biology I. However, the students surpassed the statewide average of 76 percent in English II with a score of 81 percent.

        

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