School Board Hears Results of Local TAKS Tests
    by Danielle Pardue, Staff Writer~~ Monahans News, January 5, 2009

MWPISD board members heard a report on recent TAKS tests during the Dec. 17 school board meeting.

Within the report of each campus is a breakdown of how students performed by percentage in various areas on TAKS test.  The report tells by percentage how each campus performed in reading, mathematics and other tests compared within the state, district and campus for 2007-2008.

The state sets a percentage that indicates what students should be passing the test.  The percentage at the state level on the report indicated the number of students who did better than the state percentage and passed the test on the first administration.  The District level percentage explains what percentage of the students passed the test within the district, which is a portion of the region.  The campus level score in the specified grade level tells how many of those grade levels students passed the test on their campus.

In 2008, reading scores for fourth-graders at Sudderth Elementary average 85 percent at the state level, 79 percent at the district level, and 79 percent at the campus level.  In the 2008 mathematics scores, 87 percent at state level, 75 percent at district level, and 75 percent at the campus level.  Writing scores include 93 percent at state level, 90 percent at district level, and 90 percent at the campus level. 
 

The 2008 percentages for all tests include 77 percent at the state level, 65 percent at the district level, and 65 percent at the campus level.

Reading scores for fifth-graders in 2008 average 85 percent at the state level, 89 percent at the district level, and 89 percent at the campus level.  Mathematics scores are 86 percent at the state level, 88 percent at the district level, and 88 percent at the campus level.  Science scores include 82 percent at the state level, 87 percent at the district level, and 87 percent at the campus level.  All tests 2008 percentages include 72 percent at the state level, 79 percent at the district level, and 79 percent at the campus level.

Data for the 2008 sixth grade include 94 percent at the state level, 98 percent at the district level, and 98 percent at the campus level.  Math scores include 83 percent at the state level, 95 percent at the district level, and 95 percent at the campus level.  All tests percentages include 81 percent at the state level, 94 percent at the district level, and 94 percent at the campus level.

Of recognition of commended performance in reading at Sudderth Elementary, 34 percent were at the state level, 31 percent at the district level, and 32 percent at the campus level.

Commended performance for math includes 28 percent at the state level, 26 percent at the district level, and 3 percent at the campus level.  The data is also compared by ethnicity, gender; special needs population, economically disadvantaged population and limited English proficiency.

Commended performance percentages for writing include 33 percent at the state level, 29 percent at the district level, and 32 percent at the campus level.

Sudderth commended performance percentages for science are 22 percent at the state level, 22 percent at the district level, and 49 percent at the campus level.

Commended performance percentages for other tests, 15 percent at the state level, 13 percent at the district level, and 22 percent at the campus level.

Percentages in 2008 for third-grade at Tatom Elementary in reading are 89 percent at the state level, 91 percent at the district level, and 91 percent at the campus level.

Math percentages sit at 85 percent, 73 percent at the district level, and 73 percent at the campus level.

All tests percentages include 80 percent at the state level, 72 percent at the district level, 72 percent at the campus level.

Commended performance percentages for third-grade reading include 34 percent at the state level, 31 percent at the district level, and 38 percent at the campus level.

Math percentages include 28 percent at the state level, 26 percent at the district level, and 27 percent at the campus level.

Commended performance for all tests are 15 percent at the state level, 13 percent at the district level, and 18 percent at the campus level.  Anyone wishing to see a breakdown of percentages by ethnicity, gender and economic status may view the scores at the administration building

The AEIS also gives a campus profile for each campus, which tells how many students in each grade, ethnic distribution, and percentage of economically disadvantaged students, percentage of limited English proficiency students, students with disciplinary placement, at-risk students and number of students per teacher.  Data on the staff for each campus is available in the AEIS report.  The data categories include ethnicity and sex, teachers by years of experience and average age teacher salary by years of experience.  The campus profile goes on to give data about operating expenditure information for each campus.  This information consists of expenditures by function and by program such as bilingual education, career and technology education and gifted and talented education.  Data is also given for each program the campus participates in.  The AEIS report also provides the same information and comparisons within MWPISD and other district in the state

Keyed by Blake Hughes, Senior '09