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Arlington & Lakeland’s Community Newspaper
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August 2018
Lakeland, Arlington Students Continue to Lead State
in TNReady Test Results
By Terry Bondurant, Editorial Director
Tennessee Commissioner of
Education Candice McQueen
announced the 2018 TNReady
student assessment results on July
19, sharing that while results vary
statewide, there are encouraging
trends – including strong growth
in English language arts for ele-
mentary grades.
“We see reason to be encour-
aged, but we also have a lot of
work to do to meet our higher
expectations for all students,”
Commissioner McQueen said.
“While we’ve focused extensive-
ly on early grades reading and are
starting to see a shift in the right
direction, we know middle school
remains a statewide challenge
across the board. TNReady
serves as a vital feedback loop for
teachers, parents, and administra-
tors to tell us where we are, and
the results inform what steps we
need to take to help all students
and schools succeed. We are
committed to improving imple-
mentation of TNReady so that
parents, educators, and the de-
partment can continue to know
how our students are doing each
year.”
ARLINGTON WAS ONE
OF ONLY SIX DIS-
TRICTS STATEWIDE
THAT SCORED IN
BOTH THE TOP FIVE
FOR GROWTH AND
THE TOP FIVE FOR
OVERALL ACHIEVE-
MENT LEVEL FOR A
PARTICULAR SUBJECT
OR GRADE BAND.
The recent test results show
that
Arlington
Community
Schools continues to rank among
the best in the state for achieve-
ment and growth. Of the nine
tested categories, ACS ranked in
Photo Courtesy of ACS
Arlington students extended their learning into the
summer through specialty STEM, Drama, and Art Camps
offered by the school district. More photos on page 8.
the top 5 in four categories and
ranked in the top 10 in one addi-
tional category. We are particu-
larly proud of the 5-8 science test
results, where students scored in
the top three for both growth and
overall achievement.
Overall, ACS ranked in the
top 5 statewide in the following
subject areas: 3-5 English Lan-
guage Arts, 3-5 Math, 5-8 Sci-
ence, and 9-12 US History; and
in the top 10 for 6-8 English Lan-
guage Arts.
“We should be proud of our
students and teachers for the
work they put forth in the 2017-
2018 school year,” said Arlington
Community Schools Superinten-
dent Tammy Mason. “We contin-
ue to compete with the best of the
best in the state and region, and
we should celebrate those
achievements. I look forward to
working with our educators this
upcoming school year to make
sure we’re improving in all cate-
gories.”
LAKELAND SCHOOL
SYSTEM ACHIEVES
HIGHEST DISTRICT
SCORES IN BOTH
MATH AND READING/
LANGUAGE ARTS
For the third year in a row in
which scores were available,
Lakeland School System’s dis-
trict- wide TNReady achievement
scores in grades 3-5 rank number
one in the state in both Math and
Reading/Language Arts. For the
first time, these scores captured
results from two schools, Lake-
land Elementary School (K-4)
and Lakeland Middle Preparatory
School (5-8) which opened in
August of 2017 and just complet-
ed its first year of operation.
Lakeland Middle Preparatory
School 5th graders were among
only 15% of 5th graders
statewide who completed their
assessments online during a test-
ing period that included disrup-
tions to testing nearly every day
of the test administration due to
technological issues with the
statewide testing platform. Lake-
land 6th through 8th graders were
also among 30% of students in
that grade band that took their
TNReady assessments online and
experienced the same repeated
interruptions to their testing due
to technical issues.
According to the Tennessee
Department of Education, the
majority of the 650,000 students
who took TNReady this year did
so on paper, but about 300,000
students took TNReady online.
Given the challenges with online
(Continued on page 10)
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