Administrators with the Gosnell School District recently reported their schools' state benchmark and end-of-course exam scores.
Following are the percentages of students from the district's secondary schools who scored proficient or advanced on their grade level exams:
-- Seventh-grade math: 83 percent
-- Seventh-grade literacy: 88 percent
-- Seventh-grade science: 29 percent
-- Eighth-grade math: 67 percent
-- Eighth-grade literacy: 88 percent
-- Algebra 1: 76 percent
-- Geometry: 76 percent
-- Biology: 35 percent
-- 11th-grade literacy: 68 percent
Part of the reports generated for schools on the secondary level are comparisons of graduation and dropout rates. Gosnell High School's graduation rate has dropped slightly to 66.1 percent in the 2010-11 school year, down from 68.8 percent in the 2009-10 school year. Its dropout rate has increased slightly from 4 percent in 2009-10 to 5.8 percent in 2010-11.
A majority of students on the elementary level also scored proficient or advanced on their grade level exams:
-- Third-grade math: 91 percent
-- Fourth-grade math: 81 percent
-- Fifth-grade math: 83 percent
-- Sixth-grade math: 85 percent
-- Third-grade literacy: 90 percent
-- Fourth-grade literacy: 85 percent
-- Fifth-grade literacy: 91 percent
-- Sixth-grade literacy: 79 percent
-- Fifth-grade science: 72 percent
sharris@blythevillecourier.com