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St. Lucie midyear tests show modest gains in reading and math; attendance steady
Summary
District officials told the school board that midyear (PM2) reading proficiency is roughly 5 percentage points higher across grades 3–10 than last year and math proficiency across grades 3–8 is up about 3%; staff said scale-score growth and school-level interventions drove the gains.
St. Lucie Public Schools reported modest midyear gains in reading and math on Tuesday, saying districtwide reading proficiency across grades 3–10 is about 5 percentage points higher at midyear than last year and math is up roughly 3% across grades 3–8.
Dr. Sommer, the district’s chief of schools, presented the Progress Monitoring 2 (PM2) results and said the district watches scale-score growth — the measurement that moves students from nonproficient to proficient — closely. “When you aggregate the grade levels 3 through 10 together, our proficiency at mid year is 5% higher this year than it was last,” she said.
The presentation highlighted several school- and grade-level improvements. Dr.…
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