This past week, Huntley School District 158 announced that its ACT scores increased 4.4%–from 20.5 to 21.4.
That’s good news for a district that has seen declining [oops, I should have used the word “stagnant”–thanks to an alert reader for pointing this out and another for posting the exact] ACT scores and didn’t even know that fact until it was pointed out by school board member Larry Snow at a September board meeting. That’s what Northwest Herald reporter Tom Musik heard last Thursday in Huntley.
And School District 300’s strategic plan survey data brought bad news.
84% of high schoolers and grads don’t think their high schools were drug free, according to Elgin Courier-News reporter Rebecca O’Halloran’s story.
I wonder if the other 16% were oblivious.
It makes me wonder how many of Jacobs’ valedictorians have partaken in alcohol or drugs. Some of the brightest minds at that school do not follow what the district sees as beneficial.
On what basis do you make the statement that District 158’s ACT scores are declining?
Please take a look at the first story to which I linked.
I did take a look at the first story that you linked. Then I went to the Illinois State Board of Education’s web site and looked up the numbers. Composite scores for graduating classes of 2002-06 respectively: 19.9, 20.3, 20.4, 20.4, 20.3. According the the NW Herald’s article, last year’s composite was 20.5
I ask again, on what do you base the statement that District 158’s ACT scores are declining?
Noelph — The numbers that you’ve listed are the composite ACT scores which are above 20; but the math ACT scores were below 20. Even Principal Johnson had to admit that math scores were below the state average and under 20 for all five of the years in question ( http://mhbtherestofthestory.blogspot.com/2006/09/energetic-exchanges-on-huntley-school.html ). Perhaps it would be more clear, if they’d said that District 158’s MATH ACT scores were declining.
Vern, District 158 Math scores for 2002-2006 were 19.7, 19.8, 19.7, 19.9, and 19.9.
Declining is defined as following a downward path, to fade or dwindle. I wasn’t asking about Larry Snow’s statements of scores below 20, or below state average. I was asking Cal why he stated that District 158 scores are declining. The truth of the matter is, they aren’t.
Are they were they need to be, no. But they aren’t declining, either.
Thanks to noleph for his insistence on exactness.