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Acworth Elementary Schools Lead Way on CRCT

Ford fourth-graders improved their scores in all five content areas on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests.

, and elementary school students each bettered the state average in the five content areas on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) for third, fourth and fifth grades, the Georgia Department of Education reported Wednesday.

The CRCT measures students’ abilities in reading, English/language arts, math, science and social studies.

Students in third, fifth and eighth grades must meet or exceed the grade requirements on the CRCT in reading to advance according to state law. Fifth- and eighth-graders also need to meet or exceed expectations on the CRCT in mathematics to move on to the next grade.

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third graders improved their average math score by 9.3 percent to 86.3 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. Ford students in the same class raised their average scores 1.9 percent to reach 100 percent.

fourth graders improved their scores in all five content areas, including reaching 100 percent in reading and English/language arts and 99.4 percent in math. Acworth Intermediate students’ math scores jumped 12.4 percent to 84.1 percent. Pitner students’ reading scores dropped 8.2 percent from 2010 to 88.2 percent meeting or exceeding the standard.

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’s science scores in fifth grade declined 11 percent from last year to 76.6 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. Acworth Intermediate scores also dipped in fifth grade in science and social studies. In science, the scores dropped 7.3 percent to 68.1 and in social studies they fell 9.8 percent to 60.6 percent.

sixth graders improved their scores in all five content areas, including reaching 97.6 percent meeting or exceeding the standard in reading. improved its social studies score by 4.7 percent to 90.5 percent.  

Barber and Durham seventh graders saw their scores erode from 2010. Barber’s students declined in four of the five content areas with science as the lone increase from 85 percent meeting or exceeding the standard to 85.8 percent. Durham had lower scores in three of the five areas with improvements in math and science.

Barber’s eighth graders posted a 9.3 percent increase in math to 72.4 percent. The students also improved their scores in reading to 98 percent and English/language arts to 97 percent. Durham students’ scores declined in all five eighth-grade content areas, including 6 percent in math to 88.6 percent.

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