Chase's Proficiency Scores

[puzzled]

I got the pamphlet in the mail with Chase's 5th grade proficiency scores and he did so well! The way it is graded is into a graph marked "limited', 'basic', 'proficient', 'accelerated', and 'advanced'.

His worst score was in Reading, which is his least favorite subject...he likes to read, but does not do well in the other stuff that is required....writing answers to questions about the story, book reports, etc. His score was 436, which is proficient, and still above the school and state average (421) and the district average score (425), with his worst scores coming in 'Literary text" which seems to be identifying the main events of a story and how they affect things later in the story, and analyzing events of a story....I think his issues are in putting it down into writing, but he still scored at the top of the'proficient' range, just before 'accelerated' so I am not too worried, but I am going to follow the suggestions to help him in this area.

In Math, he scored well into the 'advanced' range at 481-72 points above the state average (409) the school average is 410, the district average is 413.

In Science he scored a 469, also advanced, 49 points above the state average (410), the school average is 418, the district is 422.

Social Studies was a 454 (advanced), school average (406), State average (403), district average (413)

I do find it encouraging that our school and district scores all meet or are above the state average, but I have no idea where Ohio falls in the scheme of things, as compared to the other state scores...at least I know our school district is keeping pace with our state.

I am so proud of him, even though these tests were in May, and he was so ready to be done with school, he did his best.

[charliegirl]

It sounds like you have a gifted young man on your hands.

[jj]

Wow, that is pretty impressive.

[katiekat]

Great job Chase!

[misty]

Those are great scores! Are you going to celebrate them somehow?

[puzzled]

When I told him how well he did, he just kind of took it in...he acted like the tests were no biggie during the week he took them, and we all know how big of a deal the schools make them, they practically make the kids a nervous wreck that whole week of school.

It is his birthday today, and after the one last daycare child leaves in a couple hours, we are going birthday shopping. I am going to try to get out of the house with just him. Maybe we can go to dinner, or a movie....

He wants a PSP, but those are just too expensive, Jake got one a couple months ago, but he paid half. And the PSP would require all new games, which are not so cheap either.....He already has nintendo game boy games....and the DS system is a little cheaper than PSP, and will play his old games until he can get new games that are made just for the DS....he is mulling it over...we offered to give him half the cost of the PSP if he wanted to save for a PSP on his own.