Education Test Results Class C-1, C-2 and Smaller Schools

Governor Dave Heineman

 

Dear Fellow Nebraskans:
The State of Nebraska conducts statewide reading, math, science and writing assessments so that parents, citizens, school boards, superintendents, principals, teachers and elected officials can compare results from one district to another. This data can be very helpful in improving both student and school academic achievement performance.
In the spring of every year, students are tested in grades 3-8 and 11. I would like to congratulate our schools that have excelled academically and the focus of this column is high school academic performance.
For purposes of this comparison, I am reporting school district scores by their sports classification. This column is about C-1, C-2 and smaller school district scores for reading, math, science and writing. Next week’s column will be about Class A and B school districts.
The top scores are as follows:

	Reading	Math
Class C-1	Arlington	Arlington
	Falls City	Chadron
	Ft. Calhoun	St. Paul
	Chase County	Gordon-Rushville
	Boone Central	Chase County
Class C-2	Crofton	Crofton
	Conestoga	Oakland-Craig
	Tekamah-Herman	Humboldt-Table Rock
	Malcolm	Perkins County
	Battle Creek	Wakefield
Smaller Schools	Heartland Community	Bloomfield
	Leyton	Chambers
	Creighton	Wausa
	Hartington	Silver Lake
	Writing	Science
Class C-1	Douglas County West	Arlington
	Columbus Lakeview	Raymond Central
	Auburn	Chadron
	Milford	Chase County
	Arlington	Auburn
Class C-2	Tekamah-Herman	Crofton
	Homer	Elmwood-Murdock
	Twin River	West Holt
	Elmwood-Murdock	Cambridge
	Wisner-Pilger	Malcolm
Smaller Schools	Chambers	Bertrand*
	Freeman	High Plains Community*
	Bloomfield**	Leyton*
	Leyton **	Stuart*
	**tied for third	*tied for first

Among Class C-1 schools, I want to especially recognize Arlington for being first in reading, math and science. They were fifth in writing. Chase County was fourth in reading and science, and fifth in math. Among Class C-2 schools, I want to recognize Crofton for being first in reading, math and science.
We now have three years of reading data and I want to note that among C-1 schools, Chadron, Chase County, Fairbury, Falls City, Ft. Calhoun, Milford, Ogallala and O’Neill have improved their scores every year.
In Class C-2, the following schools have improved their reading scores ever year: Battle Creek, Conestoga, Crofton, Perkins County, Southern Valley, Superior and Tekamah-Herman.
Among smaller schools, Alma, Axtell, Creighton, Elm Creek, Emerson-Hubbard, Loup City, Palmer, Shelby, Southwest and Winside have all improved their reading scores every year.
Data for smaller schools is only being reported for schools with three years of reading scores. Additionally, federal law does not allow education data to be reported publicly if a high school class has 10 or less students.
You can review all of the reading, math, science and writing data for Class C-1, C-2 and smaller schools here.
Class C-1 Reading 2010 2011-2012 (pdf)
Class C-1 Math 2011-2012 (pdf)
Class C-1 2012 Science (pdf)
Class C-1 Writing (pdf)
Class C-2 Reading 2010 2011-2012 (pdf)
Class C-2 Math 2011-2012 (pdf)
Class C-2 2012 Science (pdf)
Class C-2 Writing 2012 (pdf)
Smaller Schools 2010-2011-2012 Reading (pdf)
Smaller Schools - Math 2011-2012 (pdf)
Smaller Schools 2012 Science (pdf)
Smaller Schools Writing 2011-2012 (pdf)