State assessments: How'd your school district do?

BY  KAYLEE TORNAY OF THE MAIL TRIBUNE  September 21, 2018

Medford has good news to report from newly released achievement data on Oregon’s Smarter Balanced Assessments: Students in all combined grades, across all three subjects of math, science and English language-arts, showed improvement.

“Overall, I’m impressed,” said Medford Superintendent Brian Shumate, “and I think we’ve done a good job.”

Medford saw the second-highest improvement among Jackson County school districts in English language arts, showing a 2.4 percent improvement in students who tested as “proficient” or higher. It also snagged the second-highest gain in the county in math, jumping by 1.4 percent, and in science, Medford saw a 1.1 percent higher amount of students who tested proficient.

The 2017-2018 data widens the edge Medford has over statewide rates in each subject across all grades. Statewide, 40.5 percent of students tested proficient in math, 60.2 percent in science and 54.9 percent in English language arts. Medford hit 42.9 percent in math, 69.9 in science and 57.9 percent in English language arts.

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