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OAKLAND — Garrett County’s elementary and middle schools all achieved Adequate Yearly Progress based on their Maryland School Assessment scores released by the Maryland State Department of Education on Tuesday.
The accomplishment indicates that a significant number of students scored at the proficient and advanced levels in reading and mathematics and that no schools in Garrett County have been identified as needing improvement, the Garrett County Board of Education announced.
“The board members and I are so proud of our students, teachers, staff, principals and central office administrators for this outstanding performance,” said Superintendent of Schools Wendell Teets. “Our students missed 17 days of instruction due to snow immediately before the MSA testing and still every school made AYP with no school in any type of improvement status.”
Math scores at all elementary and middle school grade levels improved in 2010 compared to 2009. Math at the eighth-grade level had a 10.4 percentage gain, which was the biggest improvement at any level. Grade seven had 90.4 percent of the students scoring proficient/advanced. All other grade levels scored in the 80 to 88 percent proficient range in math.
In reading, grades four, six and eight improved, with grade eight having the largest percentage gain of 13.8. Grades three, five and seven scores dropped by less than 2 percentage points. Grades four, five and six had more than 90 percent of the students scoring proficient/advanced in reading.
The percentage of students that scored at or above the proficiency level set by the MSDE include:
• Grade three: reading, 84.3; math, 85.4.
• Grade four: reading, 90; math, 88.8.
• Grade five: reading, 92.7; math, 83.5.
• Grade six: reading, 90.5; math, 85.1.
• Grade seven: reading, 87.8; math, 90.4.
• Grade eight: reading, 89.8; math, 80.5
For more information, log on to the Maryland Report Card site at www.mdreportcard.org. AYP results for high schools will be released later this summer.
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