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Test Scores Released for Albany Unified, Students Statewide Improve
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In what’s become something of an annual ritual, the state school chief on Friday praised California’s public school students for doing better on standardized tests than the year before, lamented the achievement gap that leaves black and Latino students scoring worse than their white and Asian peers, and warned that budget cuts imperil future progress.
"In less than a decade, California has gone from having only one student in three score proficient to better than one student in two," Tom Torlakson said. "As pleased as I am by the great progress many students are making, the deep school budget cuts of recent years make it ever less likely these gains will continue.
The results released Friday marked the ninth straight year that student performance improved on standardized tests in math and language arts.
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From the press release: Approximately 4.7 million students participated in the 2012 STAR program, with 57 percent scoring proficient or above in English-language arts and 51 percent scoring at proficient or above in mathematics, the highest percentage since the tests were fully aligned in 2003 to California’s content standards, which describe what students should know for each grade and subject tested.
In Albany, the vast majority of students (78.8 percent) scored at or above proficient in English-Language arts, showing an increase over the . The county average was 62 percent.
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In math, 76.2 percent of 2,743 reporting students scored at or above the proficient level. The county average was 55.3 percent.
Below are some of the scores for Albany Unified students. See the PDFs above for more in-depth scores. Go to the California Department of Education's website for results for individual schools.
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CST English-Language Arts
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 # Tested 294 279 237 271 276 283 271 294 277 317 % Enrllmt 98.3 97.9 97.5 98.2 95.2 95.3 94.4 96.4 96.5 97.2 # Scores 293 279 237 271 276 283 271 293 277 316 Mean Score 395.3 383.4 411.4 404.8 409.5 410.1 399 395.1 379.2 367.6 Advanced 48% 34% 68% 61% 62% 59% 57% 52% 46% 40% Proficient 31% 43% 23% 25% 25% 29% 21% 24% 22% 22% Basic 14% 17% 8% 7% 10% 9% 13% 15% 22% 17% Below Basic 4% 5% 1% 6% 3% 2% 6% 6% 6% 11% Far Below 2% 2% 1% 1% 0% 1% 2% 3% 3% 10%
CST Mathematics Grade 2 3 4 5 6 7 Students Tested 294 279 238 271 274 260 % of Enrollment 98.3% 97.9% 97.9% 98.2% 94.5% 87.5% Students with Scores 294 279 238 271 274 260 Mean Scale Score 427.4 425.5 427.3 439.5 424.2 425.3 % Advanced 58% 55% 58% 53% 55% 54% % Proficient 28% 28% 29% 31% 29% 29% % Basic 10% 13% 10% 10% 13% 12% % Below Basic 3% 3% 3% 5% 3% 4% % Far Below Basic 1% 1% 0% 1% 0% 1%
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