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Analysis: 90 percent of Wm Nashold students fail annual tests

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Academic results data released recently reveals 10 percent of Wm Nashold Elementary School students are considered on track for the next grade level, according to a Rockford Sun analysis of the latest Illinois schools report card.

The end-of-year tests known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, are administered to third- through eighth-graders in Illinois, testing them in reading and math based on Common Core standards. A composite score combines the results of the subject tests.

Composite scores for Wm Nashold Elementary School show about 10 percent met expectations and none exceeded them. Students whose results are in either category passed the tests and are considered prepared for the next grade level, college or work.

Another 22 percent approached expectations, 33 percent partially met expectations and 36 percent did not meet expectations. Students who scored in these categories are not ready for the next level of schooling, according to the test.

Test results at Wm Nashold Elementary School, which enrolled 402 students in 2017, surpassed state averages.

Statewide, 34 percent of students passed the test and 66 percent failed.

Of students statewide who passed, only five percent 'exceeded' expectations.

Wm Nashold Elementary School's scores over 3 years

Year
Passed
Failed
2017
9.7%
90.3%
2016
9.8%
90.2%
2015
12.1%
87.9%

How Boone and Winnebago County schools' scores compare

School
City
County
Passed
Failed
Wm Nashold Elementary School
Rockford
Winnebago
9.7%
90.3%

Top 20 Illinois schools' scores

School
City
County
Passed
Failed
Lincoln Elementary School
Dixmoor
Cook
20.9%
79.1%
Wm Nashold Elementary School
Rockford
Winnebago
9.7%
90.3%

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