Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Because the district's demographics are changing with more low-income students arriving, test scores were expected to drop. However, they held steady.
Seniors in Maine Township High School District 207 did better than the district would have predicted, given the fact that the arrival of more low-income and limited-English-proficiency students in recent years. That was the message Barbara Dill-Varga gave the District 207 school board Monday. She presented information on how the district's three high schools--Maine East, Maine West and Maine South--performed relative to state and federal standards. She also said students are showing substantial academic growth over the course of their high school careers. Earlier: D-207 PSAE scores slip The bad news that isn't so bad First, none of the three schools made “adequate yearly progress” under the standards of the No Child Left Behind law, Dill…
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Class of 2012 students at Maine East High School struggled a little, but still outperformed the state and nation on the ACT
. Maine West and South scored higher in certain subjects.
Students in Maine Township High School District 207 outperformed their peers across Illinois and across the United States on the ACT college entrance exam. That was the message of a report presented to the District 207 school board Monday. The average composite score achieved by District 207 students was 22.4, compared to a national average of 21.1 and a state average of 20.9. The district also did better on each of the ACT’s component tests in English, math, reading and science. Earlier: More D-207 students take AP classes However, the district’s three schools had widely divergent scores. At Maine South High School in Park Ridge, students had an average composite score of 24.6, better than 77 percent of the students who took the test …
Monday, September 10, 2012
Parents in D-63 recently received letters saying 5 of 7 schools are not making 'adequate yearly progress' under the NCLB law. But educators say the schools are performing well--it's the law that's flawed.
Five of the seven schools in East Maine Elementary District 63 did not make "adequate yearly progress" last year under the federal No Child Left Behind law. In a Wednesday presentation, District 63 Superintendent Scott Clay and Executive Director of Teaching and Learning Charlene Cobb stressed that the district is nevertheless educating its students well. Cobb and Clay described NCLB as a flawed law which never got the revamping that was intended, and indicated it's not useful as a way of measuring school performance. Earlier: District 63 touts test scores “The biggest question I get is, is my child’s school failing? I would have to unequivocally say no, our schools are not failing,” Cobb told about 10 parents at the Sept. 5 school board …
Monday, May 21, 2012
Ninth-graders at Maine East, South were tested when they arrived in September, and have higher scores than the district's sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Freshmen in Maine Township High School District 207 did better, on average, than previous classes on the ACT’s Explore test. The Explore test is generally given as the first is a series of tests culminating with the ACT college entrance exam. All Illinois public high school juniors take the ACT as part of the Prairie State Achievement Exam. The scores, which were presented in a report at a recent school board meeting, showed that the composite Explore score for District 207’s class of 2015 was 17. That's 0.4 points above the average of the composite scores of the last three years, according to the report from Barbara Dill-Varga, the assistant superintendent for curriculum. Earlier: Test scores for class of 2012 slipped “In every …
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