Understanding Your Child's PARCC Score

Holmdel, NJ - Attention, Holmdel parents: In case you didn’t know, the PARCC individual student scores are scheduled to be mailed to homes next week. PARCC is an enormously unpopular computerized test given to New Jersey public school students grades 3-11 — so unpopular, in fact, that nearly 15 percent of high school juniors opted out of taking the test this past spring.

The Holmdel Board of Education is holding two meetings to address the PARCC scores. The first will take place at this week’s Board of Education meeting on Wednesday. A presentation will be given on Holmdel’s district-wide results and how these results will be used as a new “baseline” for measuring district growth in the coming years, assistant Superintendent Robert McGarry said. The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in the William R. Satz School Cybercenter.

All parents are also invited to the second PARCC meeting, which will be Monday, December 21 from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Indian Hill School. That meeting is designed to help parents interpret their child’s individual score reports.

Language arts and math teachers, Marilyn Bellis and Alicia Killean, will be on hand at that meeting to answer any questions parents have about the PARCC test and test results.