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Fayette CRCT tests: Some trouble spotsTue, 07/10/2007 - 4:23pm
By: John Thompson
Braelinn, Kedron tops in elementary scores, while Rising Starr leads county’s middle schools Friday’s release of the individual school scores for the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests present an interesting overview of the differences at Fayette County’s schools. The school system sent out a press release Tuesday showing that Fayette leads the state overall with the most students in the “exceeds” category across all grade levels and subject areas. While Fayette County is traditionally at the top of the state when it comes to number of students passing the tests, the individual school scores show there‘s some work to be done in core subject areas at certain schools. Third grade is where the science test is first taken, and it shows one of the biggest failure rates. At Fayetteville Elementary, 31 percent failed, while 27 percent flunked at North Fayette and 19 percent at Burch Elementary north of Tyrone. At Crabapple in Peachtree City, 98.8 percent passed, while 97.7 passed at nearby Kedron. Science scores in the later grades also show the highest failure rates. At Fayetteville Elementary, 24.4 failed the fourth-grade science test, while 23 percent failed at North Fayette and 21.1 flunked at Burch. Kedron students led the way with a 98.9 percent pass rate, followed by Crabapple with 98.7. Sixth-grade science scores had the overall highest rate of failure for any of the tests. At Flat Rock south of Fayetteville, 32 percent failed, while 29.7 failed at Fayette Middle in Fayetteville. Rising Starr, south of Peachtree City, led the way with 91 percent passing the test. Seventh grade science scores also had the highest failure rate of any of the tests. At Fayette Middle, 27.1 percent failed, and 14.1 percent failed at Flat Rock. Rising Starr had the highest percentage of students passing the test with 93.6 percent. Eighth grade also showed a high rate of failures. Fayette Middle had 14.2 percent students fail, while 11 percent of Flat Rock failed. At Rising Starr, 95.7 percent passed. In the first-grade reading tests, 100 percent of the students passed the test at Peeples Elementary, Braelinn, Spring Hill and Brooks. The worst scores were at East Fayette, where 5.6 percent of the students did not pass; and Crabapple and Burch with a 5 percent failure rate. Braelinn students also aced the English test with 100 percent passing, while Peeples had 99.1 percent pass and Huddleston saw 98.1 percent of the students pass. The results dropped dramatically at North Fayette where 15.7 percent failed, along with 13.1 percent of the students at Minter and 12.8 percent of the students at Hood Elementary. The failure rates for the first grade math portion increased as 16.9 percent of the students at East Fayette failed, while 13.5 flunked at Burch and 11.2 percent of the students failed at Hood Avenue. Conversely, 99.1 percent passed at Huddleston, 98.4 percent at Braelinn and 98.2 percent at Peeples. In the second grade tests, the biggest failure rates were for the math test. At North Fayette, 23.4 percent failed, and 10.6 failed the test at Hood Avenue. All students at Braelinn and Kedron aced the math test. The other high failure rate was in English language arts where 18.4 percent of North Fayette students failed, along with 14.1 percent at Oak Grove. All Braelinn students passed the test, while 97.5 percent passed the test at Kedron. Third grade saw in increased failure rate across the board. In reading, 16.5 percent failed at Fayetteville Elementary, while 15.9 percent and 14.4 of the students failed at North Fayette and Burch, respectively. All students at Tyrone and Kedron passed the reading test. In English, 13.9 percent failed at Fayetteville Elementary, while 11.9 percent failed at Burch and 11.1 percent flunked at North Fayette. All the students passed at Kedron, while 98.5 percent passed at Tyrone. Students in third, fifth and eight grade must pass the reading and math portions to advance to the next grade. School system spokesperson Melinda-Berry Dreisbach said more than 400 students took the retest at the end of June and are waiting for the results. She added that if students fail the retest, the parents and administrators at the school can hold a meeting to determine if it would be best to retain the student. The tests are used as an indicator of how well students learn the basic skills in the Georgia Performance Standards and the Quality Core Curriculum. Students in grades first through eighth take the tests in reading, English/language arts and math, while third through eighth grade students take additional tests in science and social studies. “We are very pleased with these scores. Our future goal is to continue to provide the best instruction possible in order to help all of our students exceed requirements in the future,” says Superintendent John DeCotis. login to post comments
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