Pulled from the NYSED website, here are S.E.M.'s results on last year's assessments:
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/irts/ela-math/
ELA
Grade: Level 1/Level 2/Level 3/Level 4
Gr. 3: 4.7/22.4/57.6/15
Gr. 4: 15.7/21.3/56.7/6.3
Gr. 5: 1.6/14.8/78.1/5.5
Math
Gr. 3: 3.7/2.8/55.1/38.3
Gr. 4: 13.5/9.5/52.4/24.6
Gr. 5: 4.5/7.6/57.6/30.3
The percentage of Level 1 students in Grade 4 is alarming on both the ELA and Math assessments. On the grade 4 ELA, 15.7% scored 1 and 21.3% scored on Level 2 - disappointing statistics when compared to most districts in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
(Grade 3 ELA wasn't a whole lot better with 22.4% on Level 2)
The math results in Grade 4 were not much better: 13.5 percent scored Level 1 and another 9.5 percent scored Level 2.
As I mentioned in a previous post, it is "difficult" to get a "1". While this may be a generalization, anyone who has scored the state assessments would probably agree that even struggling learners oftentimes achieve Level 2.
The percentage of students scoring Levels 1 & 2s on the 4th grade ELA and Math assessments is extremely low, and is almost certainly the cause of S.E.M.'s placement on the dreaded "list".Has S.E.M. or Central Administration released any response to the poor grades? If not, one certainly is necessary.
