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The district’s two school boards saw the number of students meeting provincial standards for reading, writing and mathematics increase this past year.
This is according to results released yesterday from the Ontario-wide testing of students in Grades 3, 6 and 9 last spring, as overseen by Ontario’s Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO).
The Northwest Catholic District School Board improvements were seen in all three areas the different areas of testing.
The board saw approximately 125 Grade 3 students write the assessments during the 2010-11 school year.
Sixty-five percent of Grade 3 students met the provincial standard of level 3 for reading—a three percent increase from the previous year.
Seventy-two percent of students scored at this level for writing—up by seven percent from last year.
Meanwhile, mathematics saw 67 percent of the students met the provincial standard, a one percent increase.
A total of 140 Grade 6 students wrote the assessment.
Eighty-four percent of these students met the provincial standard for reading, a 17 percent increase from last year. Writing saw a four percent increase to 70 percent of students meeting the level three standard. Mathematics saw an increase by 12 percent so that 69 percent of students met the provincial standard.
The Rainy River District School Board also saw increases in their scores.
At the elementary level, a total of 182 Grade 3 students and 186 Grade 6 students wrote the EQAO last year. At the high school level, 116 students in applied mathematics and 129 in academic mathematics wrote the test.
There was an increase from 51 to 63 percent of Grade 3 students meeting the provincial standard for reading.
Those reaching the provincial standard for writing increased to 60 percent from 58.
Meanwhile, Mathematics saw a slight rise from 66 to 68 percent.
For Grade 6 students, 71 percent met the provincial standard, up from 65 percent. Writing saw an increase this past year of just one percent to 65 percent. Mathematics reading was at 74 percent of the students meeting the provincial average, up from 72 percent.
Writing was up by three percent to 73 percent.
Mathematics saw the number of students meeting the provincial standard increase at 58 percent—up from 54 percent from the previous year.
As for Grade 9 mathematics results, the board saw the number of students in the applied program meeting provincial standards increase to 47 percent from 42 percent.
Results from the academic stream for mathematics remained at 81 percent for the second year in a row.
Results from individual schools are available online at www.eqao.com,
Results from schools where fewer than 15 students participated in testing are not posted.
