Friday, October 19, 2012

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:

ReadingMath
Class C-1 Arlington Arlington
Falls CityChadron
Ft. CalhounSt. Paul
Chase County Gordon-Rushville
Boone Central Chase County
Class C-2Crofton Crofton
Conestoga Oakland-Craig
Tekamah-Herman Humboldt-Table Rock
MalcolmPerkins County
Battle CreekWakefield
Smaller Schools Heartland Community Bloomfield
Leyton Chambers
Creighton Wausa
Hartington Silver Lake
WritingScience
Class C-1 Douglas County West Arlington
Columbus Lakeview Raymond Central
AuburnChadron
Milford Chase County
ArlingtonAuburn
Class C-2 Tekamah-Herman Crofton
Homer Elmwood-Murdock
Twin RiverWest 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)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Noted while looking a the reading results, Hershey was #1 in these c-2 schools while Blue Hill was the bottom of the page!