East Hampton Students Make the Grade

East Hampton students performed well above the statewide averages on this year’s Connecticut Mastery Test.

Given to students in grades 3-8 each year, East Hampton students across virtually all the tested disciplines – math, reading, writing and science – outperformed the statewide average, according to figures released today by the state’s Department of Education.

The only area where East Hampton students lagged behind the state average, the release indicates, was in the results for writing on the fourth grade level, where 63 percent of the students performed at or above the goal level. Statewide, 65.5 percent of Connecticut fourth-graders performed at or above the goal in writing.

In math, at least 90 percent of all East Hampton students who took the test performed at or above the proficiency level, while 68 to nearly 80 percent performed at or above goal.

In reading, 86 to 95 percent of the students performed at or above proficiency and 70 to nearly 90 percent performed at or above goal.

In writing, 86 to 94 percent of the students performed at or above proficiency and 63 to nearly 84 percent performed at or above goal.

In science, a portion of the CMT given only to eighth and fifth graders, 93 to 95 percent of the students performed at or above proficiency and nearly 74 to 82 percent performed at or above goal.

See the attached PDFs for the full breakout of the district’s performance on the 2011 CMT as well as a breakdown of the state figures.