Brown, King Springs students perform well on CRCTs

fifth graders made significant strides on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests.

Brown fifth-grade students improved their scores in all five of the test’s content areas, the Georgia Department of Education released Wednesday.

The 33 students that took the reading test raised their average score 25.6 percent to achieve 100 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. The fifth-grade class also improved its English/language arts scores by 17.7 percent to 94.4 percent, its math score 19.1 percent to 91.2 percent and science 15.9 percent to 83.3 percent.

To top it off, students bettered their social studies score by 5.2 percent to 75 percent.

students also performed well. The third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students at the Smyrna school were the only ones in the Smyrna-Vinings Patch area to surpass the state average in all five of the CRCT content areas.

The CRCT measures third- to eighth-grade students’ abilities in reading, English/language arts, math, science and social studies.

Students in third-, fifth- and eighth-grade must meet or exceed the grade requirements on the CRCT in reading to advance according to state law. Fifth- and eighth-grade students also need to meet or exceed expectations on the CRCT in mathematics to move on to the next grade.

third graders improved their average social studies and science scores by 19 percent and their English/language and math scores by 9 percent. The students raised their social studies score to 54.3 percent meeting or exceeding the standard, their science score to 65.1 percent, their English/language arts score to 83.7 percent and math to 73.6 percent.

Argyle’s third-grade students also recorded at least 10 percent score improvements in reading, English/language arts and social studies. students in the same class improved by 13 percent in math to 81.3 percent meeting or exceeding the standard and a 9.5 percent increase in English/language arts to 85.9 percent.

Norton Park fourth graders raised their math score by 20.6 percent to 74.4 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. ’ fourth-grade class increased their science score 13.4 percent to 71.4 percent.

Nickajack’s fourth-grade students improved their math score 11.5 percent to 78.4 percent and social studies by 10 percent to 78.8 percent. fourth graders suffered three significant declines. Math scores dropped 17 percent to 53.4 percent, English/language arts scores dipped 11.7 percent to 65.5 percent and reading scores fell 8.7 percent to 73.6 percent.

fifth graders raised their math scores by 20.8 percent to 96.2 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. But Teasley students’ saw their average social studies score decline 17.5 percent to 67.1 percent and their science score dip 12.3 percent to 72.3 percent. Argyle improved its math score 17 percent to 92.9 percent and its English/language arts 13 percent to 98.8 percent.

Belmont Hills’ fifth graders also performed well on the math portion, raising their score by 16.2 percent to 84 percent. Norton Park’s class endured a 15.7 percent drop in its social studies score to 44.6 percent.

sixth graders improved their social studies scores by 15.4 percent to 65.8 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. The class also raised their average science score by improving 8 percent to 67.2 percent.

’s seventh graders boosted their average social studies score 19.9 percent to 69.4 percent. Campbell students in seventh-grade registered better scores in all five content areas, highlighted by the 10.1 percent increase in science to 71.7 percent.

Campbell eighth graders improved their math score by 11 percent to 66.1 percent meeting or exceeding the standard.