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Modest improvement at King, scores fall at Armstrong
Student achievement improved statewide during 2012-2013 on challenging mathematics Standards of Learning (SOL) tests first introduced two years ago, the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) reported today. Statewide, 71% of students passed the mathematics assessment for their grade level or course, compared with 68 percent during 2011-2012. Students posted gains on all of the individual grade-level and end-of-course mathematics SOL tests, with the biggest increases in grades 4, 6, 7 and Algebra II.
In Richmond, scores fell in 25 of the 33 tested areas with the exception of Civics & Economics, U.S.History I, grade 3 history, grade 6 math, grade 8 math, Algebra I, Algebra II, and grade 5 reading.
Scores at MLK MS dropped in 6 of their 14 categories, and in 9 of 14 at Armstrong. Franklin Military, serving grades 6-12, had scores fall in 13 of 22 reporting categories. Scores fell in all 11 categories at Chimborazo, 7 of 11 at Bellevue, 10 of 11 at George Mason, 7 of 11 at Fairfield, and all 11 at Woodville.
Richmond Public Schools SOL Results 2012-2013
Individual SOL Results 2012-2013
School / Subject / Grade / Test/ 2011-12 / 2012-13 / 2011-12 Adv / 012-13 Adv
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These scores burst any illusion that Church Hill is only on the rise. Despite progress made and despite many new residents, our community continues to be wrecked by the stress of poverty. Surely one of the greatest litmus tests of the health of a community is the flourishing of its children. The scores of our 5 elementary schools and our middle and high school is enough to turn all of us out in passionate droves to help and heal. Please, if you are a resident in this community and care about new businesses and condos, will you care even more about the health of our schools? Will you volunteer? Will you get on our PTAs? Will you volunteer through Micah Initiative and CHAT and the PPDC? Will you get to know your neighbors and their kids? Will you help work for educational justice? A community that gets highlighted in the New York magazine for its restaurants but ignores its deepest wounds is not a healthy community.
I concur with Corey in that our schools need your help! I am the President of the Bellevue PTA and a resident of Church Hill. Please consider volunteering to be a mentor, a classroom volunteer, a reading buddy or just join the PTA so that we have the funds to impact the lives of the children and parents in our school community. If you are interested in volunteering at Bellevue, please contact me! My email is christina@BellevuePTA.org.