Schools
South Windsor Schools Fare Well in State's New Grading System
Each school gets a 'School Performance Index' that rates its average results on standardized tests.
The state Department of Education released a database on Monday that shows how each school in the state has performed for the last three years based on "an average of student performance in all tested grades and subjects for a given school."
“The state’s new school accountability and support framework enables more precise, more helpful snapshots of school performance,” Commissioner Stefan Pryor said Monday. “By heralding schools making significant progress and highlighting schools in need of greater support, the system will also help districts and the state focus our efforts where they are needed most.”
Each school is given an SPI, or Student Performance Index, as measured by the Connecticut Mastery Tests for students in grades 3 to 8 and the CAPT test for 10th graders. The higher the SPI, the more students are reaching the top level or "goal" of those standardized tests. Schools are then given a goal for the following school year.
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Here's how South Windsor schools performed:
School 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Goal Philip R. Smith Elementary 85.1 81.986.7
84.8
Eli Terry Elementary School 83.5
86.7
87.9
86.2
Wapping Elementary School
86.4
88.2
86.9
87.2
Pleasant Valley Elementary School 87.5
89.7
88.5
Maintain
Orchard Hill Elementary School 86.6 88.6 92 Maintain Timothy Edwards Middle School 92.6 93.2 92.1 Maintain South Windsor High School 86.5 88.1 89.7 Maintain
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