Columbia County School Leaders Pleased With CRCT Test Results

Columbia county, GA—Soon, Columbia County students will be leaping for joy as school comes to an end and teachers and administrators are also excited as they get an unofficial look at CRCT results.

Dr. Lisa Soloff, Director of Title One and School Improvement, says teachers worked very hard to get test scores up this year.

Dr. Soloff:  “We’re extremely pleased that just means that are students are performing much better as well as performing very well on our Georgia performance standards and I think our teachers feel more comfortable with the curriculum.”

3rd graders had to pass the reading portion of the state-mandated test in order to be promoted.  95-percent passed last year and 95-percent this year. 5th and 8th graders had to pass reading and math to move on.

In 5th grade reading, the numbers remained about the same with 93-percent of students passing compared to 94-percent, last year. Doctor Soloff says an increase in enrollment could account for the slight decrease.

Math scores in 5th grade showed significant improvements with 88 percent passing compared to 82-percent last year.

Dr. Soloff: “Last year, we had about 286 students who failed the math area in 5th grade, and this year we had 205, so we so saw a huge improvement there.”

And finally, 96-percent of 8th graders passed reading compared to 95-percent last year.

And in math, the numbers showed a vast improvement with 81-percent passing compared to only 73-percent last year.

Dr. Soloff: “We had 473 students who failed last year and this year only 317 this year so overall they came up 8 percentage points.”