Wednesday, January 23, 2002
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Wednesday, January 23, 2002 |
| Fayette schools:
Better than Ga. average
By MONROE ROARK
The Georgia Department of Education has released its Georgia Public Education Report Cards for the 2000-01 school year, and Fayette County's test scores outpace the overall state results in every category. The Report Cards include Stanford 9 tests in grades three, five and eight; Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests in grades four, six and eight; and writing assessments in grades five and eight. Stanford 9 results are in five academic categories reading, total mathematics, language, science and social science along with the complete battery results. Statewide results ranged from 42 to 47 percent among third-graders, but Fayette County scores were between 64 and 69 percent. The results in fifth and eighth grades were more of the same. Statewide scores for fifth-graders averaged 48 to 51 percent, compared with 67 to 76 percent for Fayette. Eighth-graders statewide averaged 42 to 53 percent, but Fayette's results were in the 67-72 range. CRCT results are rated according to specified target levels of achievement. Each student is rated as "does not meet," "meets," or "exceeds" in reading, language arts and mathematics. The percentage of Fayette students in the "exceeds" category is consistently 15 to 20 points higher than the statewide percentage in all grades. As could be expected from those numbers, the percentage in the "does not meet" category is less in Fayette than the entire state by roughly the same margin. Complete information on the Report Cards, for Georgia overall and every school system in the state, can be found at www.gadoe.org.
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