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average scores of Rappahannock students to those of a large national sample of students at the same grade levels.
The 50th percentile is that point above which half of the students in the national group scored and below which the other half scores. Since the sampling of children statewide scored at or above the rank reached by half the children nationwide, local scores below the 50th percentile show an unfavorable comparison with students statewide as well as nationw ide.
The Rappahannock age group containing the lowest percentile ranking was the ten-vear-old. or fourth-grade group. In this group, those tested fell behind the state in each of the six subjects tested: reading, mathematics, language arts, social studies, science and educational ability (see chart 1). In reading. Rappahannock fourth-graders were very close to the state level, differing by only one point. State fourth-graders as a whole exceeded national levels.
Eighth-graders tested in Rappahannock were consistently lower than the statewide sample, but higher than the national average in mathematics and social studies (see chart 4),
Rappahannock eleventhgraders scored consistently above half of those tested nationwide, and above their statewide counterparts in reading, social studies and science.
In a telephone interview. Dr. Richard Boyer of the State Department of Education said that there were “no surprises" in the
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