Combined reading, math scores indicate best year yet for Durham Public Schools
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Dr. Bert L’Homme, Associate Superintendent Instructional Services, 560-3716
DURHAM--Twenty-seven schools turned in their highest overall performances ever in reading and mathematics last year, according to preliminary figures from Durham Public Schools’ Department of Testing.
The report includes results that will be considered by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in calculating final ABCs of Accountability designations, expected in late summer.
Results for the 2001-02 school year indicate that 27 of the system’s 41 schools that are rated by the ABCs of Accountability assessment attained their highest percentage of students performing at or above grade level since the ABCs of Accountability assessment began six years ago. (The system’s three alternative schools--the hospital school, CIS Academy and Lakeview--are assessed under an alternative system.)
Among the 2001-02 school year highlights:
Among the 14 schools not attaining their highest performance ever, 10 were within three points of their respective peak performances.
Y.E. Smith Elementary School reported the largest one-year improvement, of 16.1 percentage points. Morehead Montessori Elementary School posted the highest six-year increase, with a 40.4 percentage-point jump.
Easley, Little River and Pearsontown Elementary Schools have at least 90 percent of students at or above grade level, which puts them in the running for the designation School of Excellence, bringing the total number of such designations from one to a record of three.
Club Boulevard, Eno Valley, Forest View, Hillandale, Hope Valley, Mangum, Parkwood, Southwest Elementary Schools, and Carrington and Shepard Middle Schools reported between 80 and 89 percent at or above grade level, putting them in the running for the School of Distinction recognition, bringing the total number from seven to a record of 10.
"This preliminary report bodes extraordinarily well for our final ABCs of Accountability designations," said Superintendent Ann T. Denlinger. "Our students, teachers, principals, parents, and community supporters have much to celebrate as a result of their unshakeable dedication to excellence over the last six years."
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Attachments:
Durham Public Schools Preliminary ABCs Performance Composites, 1996-97 through 2001-02
Student Achievement: Grades 3-8 READING by Ethnicity
Student Achievement: Grades 3-8 MATH by Ethnicity
