Cobb CRCT Results Posted

The Criterion-Referenced Competency Test school-level scores for the Cobb County School District and Marietta City Schools show a range of results. 

The figures were released by the Georgia Department of Education on Tuesday. 

The CRCT, a key statewide measurement for academic performance, is administered to students in the third, fifth and eighth grades. 

Last month, the Georgia Department of Education released state- and districtwide CRCT scores that reflected modest gains from Cobb students. 

Students were tested in April in five academic areas: Reading, English/Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies. 

Their scores were categorized into four levels of achievement: percentage of students who did not meet baseline standards in that subject, percentage of students who met the standards, percentage of students who exceeded the standards, and percentage of students who met and exceeded the standards. 

While a number of elementary schools in the Cobb and Marietta districts had strong results in Reading and English/Language Arts, others were lagging.

A number of schools had 100 percent of students meeting and exceeding reading standards in third grade, mostly in East Cobb and parts of North and West Cobb. 

On the other hand, a number of schools in South Cobb had more than 15 to 20 percent of third-graders who did not meet those standards. 

Across the board, elementary students at East Side, Tritt, Murdock, Timber Ridge, Garrison Mill and Shallowford Falls in East Cobb, Davis, Nicholson and Keheley in Northeast Cobb, Ford in North Cobb and Still and Due West in West Cobb posted some of the highest CRCT scores in the Cobb district. 

Among those elementary schools with high percentages of students not meeting standards in several areas were Green Acres and Belmont Hills in Smyrna, Sanders and Austell Intermediate in Austell and Clay in Mableton. 

Third, fifth and eighth graders must pass reading standards to advance, and so must math students in the fifth and eighth grades.

To view databases with detailed scores from individual schools, click the Georgia DOE CRCT link, then download the spreadsheet for the desired grade.

The DOE also has compiled a CRCT Resource Page that explains the history of the test, how the scores are measured and includes a glossary of terms and other information.