Published: June 15, 2008 10:14 pm            

Deweyville ISD making significant TAKS strides

One year after being declared an “unacceptable” campus, Deweyville High School seems to have rectified its TAKS problem.

The high school and the rest of the Deweyville Independent School District has made significant strides in an attempt to improve scores on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills. This year’s results seem to confirm their objective.

“We were very pleased with the overall gains we had in most of the subject areas this year,” Summers said. “Significant gains in our math and science scores at the high school campus should remove them from the ‘Unacceptable’ status, while our middle school campus looks to be ‘Recognized’ again this year as well.”

After receiving shocking scores in ninth grade math in 2007, when only 33 percent of students met standard, the district saw results nearly double as 63 percent met standard this year.

Math scores also improved by 18 percentage points on the tenth grade TAKS results, while eleventh grade scores increased by 11 percentage points.

Science scores improved considerably as well, as tenth grade scores increased from 50 percent meeting standard in 2007 to 64 percent this year.

Eleventh grade results improved by a whopping 34 percentage points over last year as 90 percent of students met standard on the TAKS science test.

The only score to decrease at the high school this year was ninth grade reading, which declined four percentage points as 88 percent of students met standard.

The elementary school earned mixed results this year. Third grade students scores decreased in both test subjects as reading dropped slightly, while math scores fell by 12 percentage points.

Scores also dropped slightly in fourth grade reading and math, and in fifth grade math and science.

Middle school scores showed significant improvement, especially in sixth grade as 98 percent of students mastered both reading and mathematics, a 16 and 17 percentage point increase, respectively, from 2007.

In eighth grade reading and math, 100 percent of students met standard in both subjects, while science scores improved by 15 percentage points and socials studies scores by 11 points.



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