Overall, Ledyard CMT Results Improve Across All Grade Levels

Ledyard students overwhelming surpassed the state’s average CMT scores and saw some small increases and decreased from the 2010-11 school year.

On Thursday, the state released the results of the March 2012 CMT that were given to students in grades third through eighth. In September students and parents or guardians will receive individual test results.

Students were tested in math, reading, writing in grades three through eight and also in science in grades five and eight. In each area student performance is divided into: below basic, basic proficient, goal and advanced.

Ledyard the results showed:

In grade three the percentage of students at or above goal increased in writing but decreased in math and reading. The percentage of students at or above proficiency also increased in writing and decreased in math and reading.

In grade four, the percentage of students at or above goal increased in reading but decreased in math and writing. The percentage of students at or above proficiency also increased in reading but decreased in math and writing.

In grade five, the percentage of students at or above goal increased in reading and science but decreased in math and writing. The percentage of students at or above proficiency also increased in reading and science but decreased in math and writing.

In grade six, the percentage of students at or above goal increased in reading but decreased in math and writing. The percentage of students at or above proficiency decreased in reading, math and writing.

In grade seven, the percentage of students at or above goal increased in reading but decreased in math and writing. The percentage of students at or above proficiency increased in math, reading and writing.

In grade seven, the percentage of students at or above goal increased in reading but decreased in math, science and writing. The percentage of students at or above proficiency increased in math, reading and writing but decreased in science.

In grade eight the percentage of students at or above goal increased in reading, math and writing. The percentage of students at or above proficiency increased in math, reading and writing.

Approximately 250,000 students across the state took the CMT and overall student performance improved from in the early grades but declined in the later grades.

"We’re pleased to see that there are signs of progress in our schools,” Stefan Pryor, Connecticut Commissioner of Education said. “That said—while schools are moving more students into Proficient- and Goal-level performance, significant gaps in achievement continue between economically disadvantaged students and their peers."

He continued, "so there is reason for optimism regarding our system’s ability to advance, as well as cause for continuing concern. We need to work together to implement the reforms and initiatives we’ve recently launched in order to build on areas of progress and remedy the persistent problems in our schools."