When do psae scores come out

Students should take the test seriously and attempt to do their best. Students should bring several sharpened No. A free breakfast will be served each test day before a. Studies show that students perform better if they have had breakfast. If students attend both days and exhibit good behavior with a sincere effort, they will receive a Sonic coupon. Questions can be directed to Carolyn Sorrows at ext The acid test: area juniors prepare for Prairie State Achievement Test. Home News Sports.

Business Opinion Entertainment. About Us. The record-low results, scheduled to be released Thursday, come after Illinois closed loopholes that kept academically weak juniors from taking the exams, a practice revealed in a Tribune analysis.

Some local school officials attributed their declines in part to the larger testing pool that included less-prepared students. At the same time, grade schools posted the highest passing rate in a decade this year — 82 percent across all Illinois Standards Achievement Tests given in third through eighth grades — revealing a disconnect between elementary and high school performance that has not gone unnoticed by educators.

Passing state exams is important not only to gauge how well students are doing, but also to judge schools and districts under the federal No Child Left Behind law. The federal standards require increasingly higher percentages of students to pass the exams to avoid sanctions.

This year, 85 percent of students from varied demographic groups had to pass reading and math tests, a figure so high that state school Superintendent Chris Koch earlier predicted that a "major increase" is likely in the number of schools and districts not making what is called adequate yearly progress.

Koch and other top state education officials will be discussing adequate yearly progress and statewide test scores Thursday morning, with individual local school results being made public Oct. But for weeks now, local administrators have been sharing scores with school board members and the public. Some districts already are posting their Illinois School Report Cards for , which include statewide test results.

The Tribune used that data, and other information already available at the Illinois State Board of Education, to piece together statewide performance trends over the decade. Maine Township High School District has released data showing all three of its high schools failed federal standards, as hasLemont High School, which also missed the federal bar. Evanston Township High School has reported its Prairie State test results, which also fell short of meeting federal standards for another year.

Judith Levinson, Evanston's director of research, assessment and evaluation, said her high school scores did not appear to be impacted by the issue of students not taking the Prairie State. We would love to help! Call Us: Toggle navigation. Home Blog. By Gil Gibori, Director. Most Popular Posts. Contact Us. More About Us.