Auburn elementary students outperform state by double digits on MSP
Published 3:09 pm Thursday, September 1, 2011
Auburn School District experienced a breakthrough year in academic achievement. MSP, HSPE and end-of-course state scores reveal more students are meeting standard in reading and mathematics, and elementary students are outperforming state averages by double digits.
In addition, ELL, low income and Hispanic elementary students are far above the state scores on every measure, and three elementary schools in year 1 or step 1 exited Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). Here are some examples of this unprecedented improvement:
Elementary school
• Third grade reading scores are in the top 15% of the state — students outperformed the state average by 16%.
• Third grade math scores are in the top 15% of the state – students outperformed the state average by 10.5%.
• Third grade ELL reading scores ranked fifth overall in the state – 25.1% higher than the state average. Third grade ELL math scores ranked seventh overall in the state – 16.2% higher than the state average.
• Fourth grade ELL reading scores ranked fifth overall in the state – 17.9% higher than the state average. Fourth grade ELL math scores ranked seventh overall in the state – 18.1% higher than the state average.
• Fifth grade ELL reading scores ranked third overall in the state – 21.1% higher than the state average. Fifth grade ELL math scores ranked eighth overall in the state –16.5% higher than the state average.
• Third grade low income reading scores are 15.6% higher than the state average; math scores are 16.7% higher.
• Fourth grade low income reading scores are 12.1% higher than the state average; math scores are 17.3% higher.
• Fifth grade low income reading scores are 15.9% higher than the state average; math scores are 13% higher.
• Third grade Hispanic reading scores are 21.1% higher than the state average; math scores are 16.1% higher.
• Fourth grade Hispanic reading scores are 16.4% higher than the state average; math scores are 20.4% higher.
• Fifth grade Hispanic reading scores are 20.7% higher than the state average; math scores are 15.5% higher.
• Third grade Special Education reading scores are 13.5% higher than the state average.
• Fifth grade Special Education reading scores are 17.2% higher than the state average.
Middle school
• Sixth grade reading scores increased by 12% and math scores increased by 15%.
• Sixth grade Special Education reading scores increased by 20.5% and math scores increased by 11.5%.
• Eighth grade low income reading scores increased by 4%.
• Eighth grade Hispanic science scores increased by 10%.
• Seventh grade end-of-course algebra scores had a 97.1% pass rate.
• Eighth grade end-of-course algebra scores had a 91.1% pass rate.
High School
• Tenth grade Hispanic reading scores increased by 7.3%.
• Tenth grade Hispanic science scores increased by 9%.
• High school drop-out rates decreased from 4.4% to 3.4%; on-time graduation increased from 81% to 85.5%; and extended graduation increased from 86.2% to 91.4%.
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
Three Title schools — Alpac Elementary, Dick Scobee Elementary and Evergreen Heights Elementary — who did not make AYP in 2009-10 met AYP in all cells in both reading and mathematics in 2010-11 and are no longer in school improvement. Across the state, only 33 schools who were in step 1 also exited AYP. Preliminary figures show that 1,388 schools did not make AYP in 2010-11.
The Auburn School District is well on its way to the goal of being a world-class district. These results affirm that the 2009-2012 district strategic improvement plan is moving student achievement in the right direction.
State assessment scores for all Auburn schools are now available on the OSPI report card at reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us.
