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Editorial - September 2002 |
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Lincoln schools continue to show gains in test scores September 18, 2002 - Lincoln County schools got more good news on student performance on ABC tests last week. Seventeen of the 18 schools in the Lincoln County system met or exceeded their expected academic growth in ABCs testing for the 2001-02 school year, according to statistics released Thursday by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. North Brook Elementary became Lincoln County’s first school of excellence since the ABCs program began during the 1996-97 school year Two other schools brought special honors to Lincoln County for the first time. Union Elementary was named one of the 25 most improved K-8 schools in the state, and Lincolnton High qualified as one of North Carolina’s 10 most improved high schools Ten schools earned recognition as schools of distinction, achieving a performance composite of at least 80 percent. This encouraging news come just after a report showing a solid performance by Lincoln County schools on Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT). The SAT scores improved over the previous year an average of 29 points, from 949 to 975. Improvements were seen in the scores of each of the high schools. There are a lot of success stories with individual schools when you look at the data. Take S. Ray Lowder for example. In 1999 the percentage of students performing at grade level was at 70 percent. Today that figure has jumped to nearly 85 percent. Our students and teachers can stop and pat themselves on the back, but must keep raising the bar. Performing at grade level is not a lofty goal. We want our students performing well above grade level. While Lincoln’s SAT scores are steadily improving, they are still below the state average of 998. Our students are rising to higher levels and we congratulate the teachers and administrators who have made this possible. We must now strive to reach even higher goals and realize achievements that makes our students something more than “average.”
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