See How Hopatcong, Sparta Fared On The PARCC 2019 Exam

SPARTA, NJ - The results of the standardized tests formerly known as PARCC are in, revealing results for the 2018-2019 school year.

Patch put together the lists of districts, including percentages of students who met or didn't meet expectations. High school math was broken into Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II.

Levels four and five are considered meeting or exceeding expectations, while "Level 1" means they didn't. Just like the past PARCC tests, students met expectations if they performed in the "Level 4" and "Level 5" areas, which is between the scores of 750 and 850, the latter being a perfect score.

Here is how the local districts did out of the roughly 500 ranked:

Algebra I

• Sparta ranked 139 with 68.5 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 287 with 38.2 percent of students meeting expectations.

Geometry

• Sparta ranked 67 with 50.6 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 257 with 11.5 percent of students meeting expectations.

Algebra II

• Sparta ranked 44 with 79.5 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 195 with 44.4 percent of students meeting expectations.

3rd grade math

• Sparta ranked 154 with 69.9 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 466 with 32.5 percent of students meeting expectations.

4th grade math

• Sparta ranked 96 with 73 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 451 with 38.7 percent of students meeting expectations.

5th grade math

• Sparta ranked 125 with 66.5 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 451 with 38.7 percent of students meeting expectations.

6th grade math

• Sparta ranked 132 with 57.7 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 412 with 28.7 percent of students meeting expectations.

7th grade math

• Sparta ranked 159 with 55.6 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 408 with 28.1 percent of students meeting expectations.

8th grade math

• Sparta ranked 42 with 60.8 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 307 with 21.9 percent of students meeting expectations.

3rd grade English

• Sparta ranked 216 with 59 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 447 with 35.5 percent of students meeting expectations.

4th grade English

• Sparta ranked 89 with 78.8 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 455 with 40.6 percent of students meeting expectations.

5th grade English

• Sparta ranked 88 with 79.9 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 461 with 41.5 percent of students meeting expectations.

6th grade English

• Sparta ranked 101 with 77.3 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 390 with 49.2 percent of students meeting expectations.

7th grade English

• Sparta ranked 176 with 75.9 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 449 with 41.1 percent of students meeting expectations.

8th grade English

• Sparta ranked 138 with 79.2 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 386 with 51.3 percent of students meeting expectations.

9th grade English

• Sparta ranked 109 with 64.2 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 280 with 26.8 percent of students meeting expectations.

10th grade English

• Sparta ranked 147 with 60.3 percent of students meeting expectations.
• Hopatcong ranked 230 with 44.8 percent of students meeting expectations.

PARCC tests have been a source of controversy for years, and Gov. Phil Murphy has talked for two years about finding replacements for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test.

The New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA) uses the same computer-based platform used for PARCC and draws on the same bank of test questions. Indeed, the NJSLA results in English and math are comparable to the previous years' PARCC results.

However, the biggest difference between this assessment and PARCC is that it's now approximately 25 percent shorter and the number of questions has been reduced.

Patch previously reported on the full list.

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