44 Percent of Our 3rd-Graders' Reading Isn't ‘Satisfactory’

The Florida Department of Education has released this year’s FCAT reading scores for third-graders and the news is a mixed bag for Hillsborough County.

Of the 15,562 third-graders in Hillsborough who logged scores on this year’s reading exam, 44 percent scored a 2 or lower. While that 2 score is enough to enable a child to pass to the next grade level, it’s an indicator that a child demonstrates “a below satisfactory level of success” with state standards, according to the department of education.

Students who scored a 1 “demonstrate an inadequate level of success,” a state document says.

Hillsborough’s pass rate – students who scored a 2 or higher – came in at 81 percent. The overall results are fairly comparable to other Central Florida counties.

Forty-one percent of third-graders in Pasco scored 1s or 2s on this year’s FCATs. In Pinellas County, the number was 43 percent.

Pasco led the three counties with the number of kids scoring a 4, which is a score that demonstrates “an above satisfactory level of success.”

Here’s a look at the overall scores for the state and the three Bay area counties:

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