Friday, March 2, 2007

Montague Public School not making the grade

The C.D. Howe Institute has released Ontario's Best Public Schools:An Update to Signposts of Success and the results from our local schools are a very mixed bag.

Of most concern to me was Montague Public's Grade Three test scores. The school reported only 46. 9% of students meeting provincial standards. The report further states that Montague is in the 8th percentile of schools of similar socio-economic status. Conversly this means that 92% of similar schools score better. Beckwith Public had a pass rate of 73.6 putting them in the 80th percentile. Chimo and Merrickville scored well also, Drummond and North Elmsley are around the provincial average, with Duncan J. Scholar joining Montague with troublesome results.

How can this be ? What can be done to improve? Trust me, I'll be looking for answers.

h/t to Neo

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