News Release
Homer CCSD 33C
Goodings Grove Luther J. Schilling William E. Young William J. Butler
Hadley Middle Homer Jr. High
Contact: Charla Brautigam, Communications/Public Relations Manager
cbrautigam@homerschools.org | 708-226-7628
For Immediate Release:
Nov. 16, 2016
Homer 33C evaluating PARCC data
Setting goals for 2017-18 school year
Homer Community Consolidated School District 33C students continue to perform well on state achievement exams, scoring significantly higher than the state average.
According to the most recent Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers scores (PARCC):
- 31 percent of Homer 33C students are approaching grade-level expectations; 44 percent have met grade-level expectations; and 6 percent have exceeded grade-level expectations in Math for a total of 81 percent. The state average is 59 percent.
- 32 percent of Homer 33C students are approaching grade-level expectations; 43 percent have met grade-level expectations; and 6 percent have exceeded grade-level expectations in English Language Arts (ELA) for a total of 81 percent. The state average is 64 percent.
- 31 percent of Homer 33C students are approaching grade-level expectations; 44 percent have met grade-level expectations; and 6 percent have exceeded grade-level expectations in both Math and ELA for a total of 81 percent. The state average is 62 percent.
The results were shared at a recent school board meeting; parents were sent individual reports with their child’s report card in October.
Detailed reports from each of the district’s six schools can be found on the Homer 33C website at: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B4KLcm838vp5am90ZTRrV1lHWTQ
Even though the scores are significantly higher than the state average, Homer 33C administrators are now analyzing the data — reviewing scores by grade level from each of the district’s six schools — to determine how they can improve.
Each school has a School Improvement Team that is charged with reviewing the data and coming up with a plan for improvement for their school and district.
Kathleen Robinson, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction, said the information is useful to parents and teachers because it shows how each student is doing in the content area, where his strengths are and where improvement is needed.
In addition, the reports now break the information down by learning standard, enabling educators to see exactly where they need to direct their focus.
It will be another year before school districts can truly track progress, however, because the format of the exam changed in 2016 — the year after PARCC was first introduced, said Robinson.
That first year, students were tested for 90 minutes at a time during two test windows. Last year, they were tested for 60 minutes at a time during one test window.
“We will be able to look at trend information next year,” said Robinson.
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