Highland School received good news last week when the test scores were released. Highland School teachers, staff, students and parents worked hard to improve the scores and it paid off.
– Highland was 5.2 percent above the state average in math, the fourth straight year the school has been above the state average.
– Highland was 2 percent above the state average in reading, a five percent increase from the previous year.
– All student consistent attendance was 1.69 percent above the state average.
Some highlights from the scores were the Native American, English Learners, Special Education, Free and Reduced meal student scores.
– Native American Math proficiency was 68.8 percent (40.1 percent above the state average)
– English Learners Math proficiency was 100 percent (69.2 percent above the state average)
– Special Education Math proficiency was 66.7 percent (56.3 percent above the state average)
– Free and Reduced price meal Math proficiency was 66.7 percent (42.5 percent above the state average)
– Native American Reading proficiency was 75 percent (39.7 percent above the state average)
– English Learners Reading proficiency was 100 percent (80 percent above the state average)
– Special Education Math proficiency was 66.7 percent (52.9 percent above the state average)
– Free and Reduced price meal Math proficiency was 73.3 percent (42.2 percent above the state average)
– Homeless students almost doubled the state average in Reading and Math proficiency.
“I am very proud of the scores at Highland School this past year. As a school, Highland has been above the state average for the past four years in a row in math. This past year we were above the state average for the first time in reading,” said Highland School Principal Chris Trostad. “We have been hovering just below the state average for the past three years. Being above the state average is a great accomplishment schools tend to struggle more with reading than math. We had some really nice scores in many of our subgroups that were well above the state average.”
Science at Highland saw a jump of 8.4 percent and was within 1.6% of the state average. “This is closest we have ever been to the state average and it was nice to see an 8.4% increase to get us very close to the state average,” said Trostad. “I am very proud of the students, teachers and support staff for how hard they worked to achieve these great results. Academic achievement is my first priority for the staff at Highland School.”
Highland school has been identified as a “Targeted Support” school for English Learner and Hispanic students.
