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 Posted: Fri, Feb 22 2008, 7:51 pm EST Post subject: Cranbury pleased with high grades |
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Cranbury pleased with high grades
By Maria Prato-Gaines
Posted: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:54 AM EST
CRANBURY — State School Report Cards were released this week and with increasing advanced proficiency scores for Cranbury, school officials said they are pleased with the results.
”We’re proud of the scores our students achieved,” said Chief School Administrator John Haney. “Academically, we did very well.”
The annual state report gives information about schools performance on standardized tests, classroom size, enrollment, faculty salaries and student-faculty ratios. Each school is compared to state averages.
Results revealed that students at Cranbury School tested well above the statewide average. At minimum, Cranbury students led the state average by more than 6 percent during the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge language arts literacy test for fifth-graders.
Cranbury students scored more than 48 percent higher than the state average in the NJASK fifth-grade mathematics test.
According to the report, 79.2 percent of Cranbury School third-graders scored proficient on the NJASK language arts literacy test and 19.4 percent scored advanced proficient.
In math, 47.2 percent of third-graders scored proficient and 47.2 percent scored advanced proficient.
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