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Rappahannock ninth graders, along with students throughout the state, scored slightly higher on minimum competency tests administered in the spring than did tenth graders given the exams last fall.
In addition, scores tallied by county students on both the reading and math portions of the spring test are higher than marks posted by students in most neighboring school divisions.
In Rappahannock, 89.6 of regular (non-handicapped) ninth graders passed the reading exam this spring compared to 87.2 percent of county tenth graders who passed last fall. In the math portion of the competency test, 89.7 percent of regular ninth graders passed in the spring compared to 86.2 percent of tenth graders who mastered the exam last fall.
Statewide results show 88.7 percent of Virginia’s ninth graders passed the spring reading test and 89.5 percent passed the math test. On the competency exam given to tenth graders last fall, 86.6 percent passed the reading portion and 87.3 percent passed the math.
“The results of the spring tests are cause for cautious optimism,” states a release from the Department of Education accompanying the test scores. “It appears that the graduation competency program may be achieving its intended purpose, namely to improve the practical academic skills of lowachieving students.”
According to the release, “the same level of achievement was required to pass the spring test as to pass the fall test. No students were penalized in the spring
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