TCAPs 2014

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014 » THE TRIBUNE

» BY THE NUMBERS

43

Percent of 327 testable areas grades 3-10 in which District 6 students improved.

» HIGHEST PERFORMING DISTRICTS *By cumulative average of students scoring proficient or advanced (all grades and test scores within district).

71

Windsor Re-4

71 Eaton Re-2

60 STATE AVERAGE

60 Johnstown/Milliken Re-5J

59 Platte Valley Re-7

54 Weld Central Re-3J

52 Highland Re-9

49 Valley Re-1

46 Greeley-Evans 6

45 Fort Lupton Re-8

» GAINS AND LOSSES *Change in percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced by district. The percentage point change is cumulative, reflecting all grades, all tests.

+2.75

15

Number of areas out of 24 (eight grade levels, three subjects) in which District 6 students either closed the gap or maintained their gap with state averages.

Fort Lupton Re-8

-0.04 Windsor Re-4

-0.25 Greeley-Evans 6

-0.29 Johnstown/Milliken Re-5J

-0.42 Valley Re-1

-0.46 STATE AVERAGE

-0.75 Eaton Re-2

-0.96 Weld Central Re-3J

-6.58 Highland Re-9

67

Percent of eighth-grade math classes across the county that improved TCAP scores from last year, the grade and subject with the highest improvement.

27

Percent of 10th-grade writing scores that improved across the county, the grade and subject with the lowest improvement.

2014 TCAP RESULTS

The following are the results of the Transitional Colorado Assessment Program tests for reading, writing and math. The scores represent the percentage of students at or above proficiency in 2013 and 2014. | Source: Colorado Department of Education Compiled by: Tyler Silvy

» 3rd grade Reading DISTRICT/SCHOOL EATON RE-2 Benjamin Eaton ES Galeton ES FORT LUPTON RE-8 Leo William Butler ES Twombly ES GREELEY-EVANS 6 Centennial ES Dos Rios ES East Memorial ES Ann K. Heiman ES Jackson ES Madison ES Maplewood ES Billie Martinez ES Christa McAuliffe ES Meeker ES Monfort ES Romero ES Shawsheen ES Scott ES Chappelow Magnet Harold S. Winograd ES Frontier Academy Union Colony ES University Schools West Ridge Academy HIGHLAND RE-9 Highland ES JOHNS./MILL. RE-5J Letford ES Milliken ES Pioneer Ridge ES Knowledge Quest PLATTE VALLEY RE-7 Platte Valley ES VALLEY RE-1 Gilcrest ES Pete Mirich ES Platteville ES WELD CENTRAL RE-3J Hoff ES Lochbuie ES Hudson ES Cardinal Academy WINDSOR RE-4 Grandview ES Mountain View ES Rangeview ES Skyview ES Windsor Academy STATE TOTAL

’13 84 85 80 58 69 46 66 44 64 49 56 63 51 61 52 84 82 79 53 66 72 85 84 87 58 69 72 75 75 X 75 X 89 71 75 75 74 61 80 77 72 77 68 73 86 82 81 89 89 94 73

’14 80 81 72 59 65 51 66 64 56 45 69 49 49 60 43 88 70 64 46 70 56 91 86 90 66 79 70 66 66 75 81 68 76 77 79 79 78 70 67 94 68 78 58 69 90 79 91 75 70 84 82 72

Writing ’13 61 70 27 28 35 21 41 21 38 23 27 32 21 23 29 64 46 55 28 43 41 78 73 74 23 58 40 45 45 X 75 X 83 47 51 51 57 62 53 57 49 57 39 45 67 61 68 66 71 77 51

’14 61 62 56 46 54 35 42 33 33 23 27 22 28 28 28 74 39 43 35 46 35 65 66 80 24 60 55 56 56 56 67 42 64 49 57 57 54 45 47 67 35 38 26 35 60 68 75 67 64 80 54 51

» 4th grade Math ’13 ’14 86 84 86 84 83 84 57 70 65 75 48 62 62 66 43 66 64 70 42 45 53 65 51 45 44 58 52 53 56 56 85 87 69 67 76 64 55 56 57 66 69 56 84 90 90 85 86 92 31 39 79 77 48 85 73 62 73 62 X 83 78 83 X 82 88 84 81 84 86 84 86 84 78 67 69 42 77 60 84 89 72 73 75 88 67 62 74 73 - 90 87 85 84 80 90 83 84 84 88 88 90 94 72 72

Reading ’13 80 81 74 49 42 57 56 36 39 36 64 41 43 45 32 77 67 67 32 66 51 62 77 89 63 73 67 58 58 X 80 X 80 62 55 55 63 44 64 73 69 72 66 65 79 78 72 76 85 81 78 68

» 6th grade

Platte Valley Re-7

+0.46

7

Number of scores below 10 percent proficient and advanced in District 6’s 327 testable areas.

Reading DISTRICT/SCHOOL EATON RE-2 Eaton MS FORT LUPTON RE-8 Fort Lupton MS GREELEY-EVANS 6 Chappelow Magnet Harold S. Winograd ES Brentwood MS Franklin MS Heath MS John Evans MS Monfort ES Romero ES Frontier Academy Union Colony ES Union Colony Prep University Schools West Ridge Academy HIGHLAND RE-9 Highland MS JOHNS./MILL. RE-5J Milliken MS Knowledge Quest PLATTE VALLEY RE-7 Platte Valley MS VALLEY RE-1 North Valley MS South Valley MS WELD CENTRAL RE-3J Hoff ES Lochbuie ES Hudson ES Weld Central MS Cardinal Academy WINDSOR RE-4 Severance MS Windsor MS Windsor Academy STATE TOTAL

’13 82 82 59 59 62 78 88 57 44 64 49 59 54 76 75 73 86 69 69 77 75 86 69 69 64 59 70 67 65 82 82 82 81 73

’14 80 80 53 53 56 79 78 45 37 50 37 69 53 84 68 73 75 61 61 68 65 84 64 64 63 68 56 61 57 90 76 76 75 86 71

Writing ’13 61 61 43 43 43 65 73 36 23 44 31 47 33 64 59 46 64 60 60 57 56 67 54 54 46 41 52 43 46 66 67 64 70 58

’14 66 66 41 41 40 58 67 30 21 33 26 44 43 73 52 50 50 46 46 50 50 48 46 46 53 56 48 51 47 75 69 67 68 82 57

’14 83 84 78 51 57 44 55 19 55 45 48 56 31 35 38 82 75 65 36 46 49 79 78 84 53 75 64 58 58 68 77 47 79 75 76 76 71 52 78 73 72 78 70 70 81 80 83 77 81 85 67

Writing ’13 68 68 70 29 23 37 40 14 35 19 44 37 30 33 20 64 33 43 20 40 36 46 67 79 39 61 48 42 42 X 63 X 67 38 47 47 57 38 60 66 49 53 48 38 58 65 60 59 67 71 74 53

’14 67 70 52 31 39 23 39 8 45 33 28 38 17 24 24 64 46 48 20 40 28 63 60 72 31 53 52 42 42 53 70 29 65 52 58 58 56 44 63 56 56 67 48 50 68 69 71 60 70 71 52

» 5th grade Math ’13 ’14 87 83 86 84 91 78 59 58 52 63 69 53 62 62 48 34 43 63 43 49 68 57 59 61 57 51 51 49 52 48 85 76 65 71 74 76 42 47 72 52 67 56 72 88 83 93 92 87 42 36 80 80 48 80 67 73 67 73 X 74 76 72 X 57 80 89 55 80 69 85 69 85 70 67 59 64 64 65 80 69 71 70 77 78 69 58 68 72 74 84 84 82 85 76 83 88 79 91 89 82 88 72 72

Reading ’13 82 85 65 45 41 49 57 45 52 44 56 42 33 44 43 84 53 70 48 58 39 75 61 95 68 68 48 65 65 X 60 X 86 61 69 69 59 56 61 60 60 76 46 59 67 78 69 78 79 80 88 70

» 7th grade Math ’13 ’14 74 74 74 74 49 50 48 50 50 44 67 59 82 64 44 36 31 23 45 41 38 30 65 59 50 49 72 70 59 52 - 62 61 55 56 60 52 60 52 58 54 55 53 76 59 43 49 43 49 37 38 28 40 48 35 54 53 - - - 52 50 - 75 73 76 74 78 74 75 72 77 62 61

Reading ’13 84 84 54 54 52 79 78 47 36 45 33 79 84 66 68 74 74 67 69 48 63 63 64 71 55 65 64 72 81 82 78 88 68

’14 73 73 48 48 57 76 86 53 43 51 39 53 71 66 69 76 54 54 74 73 80 71 72 55 53 57 61 60 76 78 75 75 69

Writing ’13 78 78 42 42 46 74 68 37 35 40 24 78 69 63 47 57 57 61 61 57 67 67 58 65 50 52 51 67 75 75 71 88 61

’14 69 69 36 36 47 72 80 45 33 40 26 20 71 61 58 71 54 54 60 57 76 60 60 46 43 50 54 53 73 79 69 78 61

’14 78 78 76 60 59 61 60 41 45 36 58 50 51 48 34 79 64 80 45 63 55 70 78 92 67 72 76 54 54 68 76 51 79 56 59 59 63 67 61 62 76 83 70 76 79 81 82 73 86 82 85 71

Writing ’13 73 76 55 32 32 32 43 24 41 27 42 30 18 33 31 71 32 51 39 43 34 49 58 91 61 47 33 54 54 X 62 X 79 45 49 49 41 41 39 43 50 67 37 49 52 68 67 67 69 64 74 57

’14 67 69 57 41 50 54 41 27 37 28 39 30 29 26 19 58 36 51 31 31 33 54 57 83 49 47 57 42 42 54 61 36 65 42 40 40 44 42 53 38 57 68 52 56 53 65 67 60 72 57 76 55

Math ’13 ’14 74 80 77 83 55 62 49 62 52 59 46 66 51 53 41 41 52 38 37 41 51 55 33 41 34 47 38 37 32 39 72 68 43 47 59 63 47 54 49 48 49 48 63 66 52 70 94 84 61 32 68 70 43 76 59 48 59 48 X 63 54 68 X 52 82 70 70 50 54 59 54 59 56 51 44 45 61 53 60 52 59 60 71 80 46 49 57 59 76 58 73 75 69 83 76 62 75 83 70 70 72 83 65 65

» 8th grade Math ’13 ’14 67 67 67 67 53 40 53 40 35 37 46 58 52 67 22 32 29 22 32 29 17 25 - - 23 66 54 - 57 44 58 51 16 53 57 49 57 49 52 53 54 53 38 56 36 37 36 38 35 31 36 23 33 42 46 44 - - - 45 42 56 74 67 75 70 69 64 84 75 55 55

Reading ’13 79 79 53 54 51 78 83 44 31 47 38 72 68 69 64 64 71 70 80 59 59 55 55 54 68 69 80 79 78 97 67

’14 84 84 51 51 50 67 67 46 37 44 28 82 69 68 52 52 64 65 58 67 67 58 64 51 61 61 67 79 80 76 88 66

Writing ’13 67 67 37 38 41 70 77 29 25 38 33 70 55 52 57 57 53 52 60 54 54 40 43 35 55 55 66 68 61 89 56

’14 73 73 40 41 41 65 67 28 33 37 23 78 61 47 43 43 55 55 53 55 55 50 54 46 47 46 61 71 72 67 83 56

Math ’13 ’14 60 67 60 67 54 51 54 52 31 34 47 43 52 55 18 21 15 24 31 34 18 21 - - 61 62 - 53 49 56 50 - 43 57 43 57 51 45 50 46 57 32 37 40 37 40 32 33 29 34 37 32 39 45 - - - 37 45 - 44 63 70 60 68 63 70 76 79 51 52

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Board member: We can make changes quickly « WEST RIDGE From A1 than monumental improvement may have been met with more skepticism from the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Board of Education that had harsh words for the school when its charter renewel came up in January.

“My hope is it’s not a matter of when, but a matter of now,” said board member John Haefeli at the time. “You have to move forward in a positive manner.”

The school did, but not without significant changes.

Gone is longtime principal and director Victoria Martino, who stepped down for health reasons just weeks after state standardized test results showed a significant slide.

Barbara Spencer served as interim starting Sept. 30, but was replaced in May by former Liberty Common (Fort Collins) Headmaster Russ Spicer.

Gone too is the school’s pension for playing hide and seek with the media, perhaps a change in culture or change in test scores contributed.

Martino did not return phone calls from The Tribune. And one employee who did answer the phone said the school hadn’t received its TCAP results despite records showing Martino had reviewed the results nearly a month before that phone call.

There was reason to hide.

Ranelle Lang, the district’s superintendent at the time, called West Ridge scores a result of “instructional malpractice.”

West Ridge board member Brian Bartels admits to the misalignment of curriculum Lang was referencing, but he was more eager to talk about how that has changed — and how quickly.

“That is another thing about being such a small school, is we can make these changes quickly,” Bartels said. “What we’ve done in the last 6-9 months, even 12 months, has been basically to turn the whole school around and get these increases in scores in a short period of time.”

As for the kids Gavetta credited for the quick turnaround? Well, Spicer said they hadn’t settled on a way to celebrate quite yet.

“It might not be bad to give them some kind of recognition,” Spicer said. “I think for sure letting them know that they did a knock-down, drag-out job and we’re excited about what the future brings.”

Tyler Silvy covers education for The Greeley Tribune. Reach him at tsilvy@greeleytribune.com.

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» 9th grade Reading DISTRICT/SCHOOL EATON RE-2 Eaton HS FORT LUPTON RE-8 Fort Lupton HS GREELEY-EVANS 6 Greeley Central HS Greeley West HS Jefferson HS Northridge HS Frontier Academy Union Colony Prep University Schools HIGHLAND RE-9 Highland HS JOHNS./MILL. RE-5J Roosevelt HS PLATTE VALLEY RE-7 Platte Valley HS VALLEY RE-1 Valley HS WELD CENTRAL RE-3J Weld Central HS WINDSOR RE-4 Windsor HS STATE TOTAL

’13 79 79 45 45 54 51 51 24 40 87 88 67 69 69 70 70 74 74 45 45 63 63 80 81 68

’14 76 76 49 50 53 46 47 28 43 83 76 78 63 63 70 70 67 67 53 53 60 61 80 80 66

Writing ’13 71 71 32 33 39 36 38 6 23 70 77 47 61 61 57 57 56 56 33 33 47 47 69 69 55

’14 66 66 28 28 40 33 34 6 29 75 64 64 55 55 55 55 57 57 35 35 45 45 64 64 54

» 10th grade Math ’13 ’14 41 40 41 40 17 18 17 19 22 25 18 23 21 19 6 0 9 18 57 52 51 35 29 40 39 34 39 34 33 37 33 37 31 38 31 38 13 13 13 13 33 18 33 18 40 48 40 49 39 40

Reading ’13 79 79 62 62 58 58 56 33 49 86 89 66 77 77 63 63 60 60 64 64 66 67 77 77 70

’14 82 82 44 44 54 47 54 32 39 88 95 74 67 67 71 71 69 69 55 56 63 63 81 81 69

Writing ’13 60 60 33 33 38 32 40 12 29 72 82 44 58 58 50 50 48 48 39 39 45 46 55 55 49

’14 56 56 33 33 33 27 33 5 21 71 82 40 39 39 55 55 56 56 34 35 43 43 58 58 49

Math ’13 36 36 16 16 18 12 16 5 13 51 33 30 29 29 27 27 33 33 12 12 28 28 38 38 34

’14 37 37 10 9 17 12 16 2 7 49 49 27 27 27 29 29 32 32 13 13 26 26 32 32 33

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* NOTE: Scores in green are areas where the school improved; scores have been rounded to the nearest percentage point. * The science TCAP testing is no longer administered. Science tests will now be administered under the Colorado Measurement of Academic Success testing. Those scores will be released later this year. * All scores for Milliken Elementary School were declared invalid for 2013 because of misadministration. Likewise, elementary averages for Johnstown-Milliken Re-5J District are not reported. * Briggsdale Re-10 District, Pawnee Re-12 District and Prairie Re-11 District numbers are not made public by the CDE because too few students are tested.

Achievement does not equal growth « TCAPS From A1 But the conclusion by district officials that “more students are learning as evidenced in 2014 TCAP results…” doesn’t necessarily follow from the data.

District brass replied to that line of thinking by saying stark conclusions, both positive and negative, should not be drawn from this year’s data. They added that any drops in the data were small, compared to huge gains.

But if West Ridge’s astounding 23 percentage points per gain are taken out of the equation, the district’s average gains (7.17) and losses (7.71) are pretty similar.

Elsewhere in the county, results were mixed, as well. Here are five things to know about TCAPs in Weld County: 1. ACHIEVEMENT DOES NOT EQUAL GROWTH

Eaton Re-2 and Windsor Re-4 school districts left other Weld County districts in the dust with an average cumulative proficient or advanced percentage of 71.

But that list was turned on its ear when looked at through a growth perspective. Platte Valley, in the middle of the pack in achievement (59), was first in growth, gaining 2.25 percentage points over last year. Fort Lupton was last in achievement (45) and moved to second in growth.

2. THE BEST OF THE BEST

The best score in the county this year belongs to 10th grade reading students at Union Colony, 95 percent of whom scored proficient or advanced. That 95 percent sits in stark contrast with the state’s 10th-grade reading average of 69.

JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com

THIRD-GRADERS WORK ON A project during class earlier this year at Grandview Elemen-

tary School in Windsor. Cumulatively, 79 percent of Grandview Elementary’s students scored proficient or advanced in the 2014 TCAPs. 3. MATHEMATICIANS

provement across content areas among districts with more than one elementary school. Kids at Hoff Elementary School, Lochbuie Elementary School, Hudson Academy and Cardinal Academy combined to improve in 11 of 12 content areas (92 percent).

4. WELD CENTRAL WINNING

5. SMALL SLICE OF IMPROVEMENT

Nearly 70 percent of eighthgrade math classes across the county improved their TCAP math scores from last year. That was the highest percentage improvement of any grade or subject level.

Fifth-graders in the Weld Central Re-3J School District had the highest percentage im-

Just two school districts in Weld County, Platte Valley Re-7

and Fort Lupton Re-8 showed cumulative improvement compared to last year’s scores. Platte Valley improved its cumulative total percentage of kids who scored proficient or advanced by 2.25 percentage points. Fort Lupton improved by about a quarter of a percentage point. At the other end of the spectrum, Highland Re-9’s cumulative score went down by 6.58 percentage points.

» GROWTH IN READING FOR DISTRICT 6 ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS 60% 55% 50% 45%

» MOVING ON UP A closer look at West Ridge scores (2013 score-2014 score). Improvements bolded.

READING 3rd grade: 72-70 4th grade: 67-64 5th grade: 48-76 6th grade: 86-75 7th grade: 68-76 8th grade: 77-82 WRITING 3rd grade: 40-55 4th grade: 48-52 5th grade: 33-57 6th grade: 64-50 7th grade: 47-71 8th grade: 38-73 MATH 3rd grade: 48-85 4th grade: 48-80 5th grade: 43-76 6th grade: 55-56 7th grade: 16-53 8th grade: 31-64

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» GOLD STARS ACROSS THE COUNTY GOLD STAR – READING Union Colony Preparatory Academy 10th grade scored 95 percent proficient or advanced, just edging Platteville Elementary School third-graders (94).

GOLD STAR – WRITING Windsor Academy eighthgrade students scored 83.33, just barely edging Frontier Academy fifth-graders, 83.16.

GOLD STAR – MATH Windsor Academy’s third grade scored 94, meaning 94 percent of the third-graders were proficient or advanced.