See How Madison Fared On The PARCC 2019 Exam

MADISON, 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

• Madison School District ranked 114 with 76.1 percent of students meeting expectations.

Geometry

• Madison School District ranked 60 with 54.8 percent of students meeting expectations.

Algebra II

• Madison School District ranked 53 with 82.7 percent of students meeting expectations.

3rd grade math

• Madison School District ranked 148 with 70.7 percent of students meeting expectations.

4th grade math

• Madison School District ranked 142 with 68.4 percent of students meeting expectations.

5th grade math

• Madison School District ranked 82 with 71.4 percent of students meeting expectations.

6th grade math

• Madison School District ranked 40 with 72.1 percent of students meeting expectations.

7th grade math

• Madison School District ranked 31 with 75.5 percent of students meeting expectations.

8th grade math

• Madison School District ranked 39 with 61.3 percent of students meeting expectations.

3rd grade English

• Madison School District ranked 109 with 70.5 percent of students meeting expectations.

4th grade English

• Madison School District ranked 146 with 73.8 percent of students meeting expectations.

5th grade English

• Madison School District ranked 111 with 76.9 percent of students meeting expectations.

6th grade English

• Madison School District ranked 156 with 72.4 percent of students meeting expectations.

7th grade English

• Madison School District ranked 67 with 86 percent of students meeting expectations.

8th grade English

• Madison School District ranked 113 with 81 percent of students meeting expectations.

9th grade English

• Madison School District ranked 62 with 73.3 percent of students meeting expectations.

10th grade English

• Madison School District ranked 61 with 76.4 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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