Analysis

The percentage of Jefferson students who meet state standards in reading exceeds the percentage of students at the state and district level who meet state standards. At Jefferson 63% of the students meet state standards in reading while 53% at the district level and 44% at the state level meet state standards. The percentage of Jefferson students who exceed state standards is less than the percentage of exceeds students at both the state and district level. Only 7% of Jefferson students exceed state standards while 14% at the district level and 17% at the state level exceed state standards. Only 1% of Jefferson Students fall in the academic warning category while 4% of the district and 8% of the state students fall in the same category. The percentage of students who fall below standards at the state, district and building level is virtually the same (Jefferson—30%, District—29%, State—31%).
 
 

By combining the percentage of students in the meets/exceeds and does not meet/academic warning Jefferson students’ performance compares favorably with the district and is better than the state performance. 70% of Jefferson students meet or exceed state standards while 67% of district students and 61% state-wide meet the same criteria.
 
 
 
 

Conclusions and Recommendations

Since there is a smaller percentage of Jefferson students in the exceeds category we need to improve our efforts with capable students so that the percentage of exceeds students increases to double digits. We also need to reduce the number of students who do not meet expectations by an equal amount.
 
 
 
 

Analysis

The breakdown of performance detailing average percent of correct responses for each of the individual standards in reading shows little variation among school, district and state scores. The greatest difference among school, district and state scores is 4%. All scores clustered around 70% correct with a high of 77% correct for the school in Literary Works to a low of 63% correct for the school and state in Informational Sources.

Conclusions and Recommendations

Since we are unsure what questions on the assessment relate to each of these areas we will make an effort during the test administration to identify what areas are being assessed by what kinds of questions.
 
 
 
 

Analysis

An analysis of the performance by quartile reveals that more (45%) of Jefferson students scored in the third quartile than the district (35%) or state (25%) students’ performance in the same quartile. A lower percentage of Jefferson students (20%) performed in the top quartile than the district (29%) or state (32%). Only 11% of Jefferson students performed in the bottom quartile compared with 16% of district students and 22% of students state-wide. A greater percentage of Jefferson students performed in the top two quartiles (65%) than at the state (57%).

Conclusions and Recommendations

We need to concentrate on our more capable students to increase the number of students in the top quartile.