Wentzville students excel on MAP test
August 6, 2010
Wentzville, MO
Students in the Wentzville School District outperformed other students in the county and state in a variety of areas on the latest Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) scores released by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).
The standardized tests are given annually to students across Missouri at the elementary, middle and high school levels. The 2010 scores revealed that:
*Sixth grade students in the Wentzville School District (WSD) had the highest communication arts scores in St. Charles County;
*Seventh grade WSD students had the highest math scores in the county;
*At the high school level, students who took the English II exam outperformed all others in the county.
Individual schools in the District also excelled in relation to other schools in St. Charles County and the state of Missouri. Holt High School had the highest percentage of students scoring “proficient” or “advanced” on the English II MAP exam when compared to all other high schools in the state that had 150 or more students taking the exam.
Wentzville South Middle School had the highest sixth grade communication arts and math scores as well as the highest seventh grade math scores compared to all other middle schools in St. Charles County.
Frontier Middle School had the highest Algebra I scores in St. Charles County, and South Middle School students had the second highest scores in the county out of the 28 schools that administered the test.
From the Wentzville School District
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