Royal Oak Students Top State Average on M-Step Tests

ROYAL OAK, MI – Royal Oak students scored well above state and county averages on the spring 2015 administration of the state’s M-Step test.

The M-Step replaced the MEAP test in the 2014-2015 school year and is administered in grades 3-8 and grade 11 in four subject areas: English language arts, math, science, and social studies.

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All Royal Oak M-Step aggregate scores by subject area are above both Oakland County and state averages, the school district said in a news release.

Seventeen of the 20 scores as reported by grade and content area are at or above the corresponding scores reported for Oakland County as a whole, one of our state’s strongest counties for student learning.

In two areas, Royal Oak Schools are among the top performing districts in our county: scores for 11th grade and overall scores for students defined as economically disadvantaged.

“These scores represent one set of data among many that we use to analyze student learning,” Royal Oak school superintendent Shawn Lewis-Lakin said. “Whether the results our students achieve on an assessment are good depends not on the scores achieved, but on how we use the scores to improve learning for all of our students.”

He said district officials will examine all of the M-STEP data and seek continuous improvement towards the excellence standard we set for ourselves.”

“In looking at the scores,” Lewis-Lakin said, “I am pleased at what they indicate regarding the positive impact our work makes over time, as evidenced by the strength of our grade 11 scores.

“The aggregate scores for students defined by federal standards as being economically disadvantaged are an indicator of the impact of our schools when the variable of the economic background of the students is controlled,” he said. “That the scores for this subgroup are so strong is very encouraging. Our students, our teachers — indeed, our entire community — are working hard and achieving at a level that should make us all proud.”

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