Wayne Students Earn High Marks in Science, Language
State releases standardized test scores.
Students in the Wayne School District earned high scores on the science part of the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge Test. Juniors at Wayne Hills and Wayne Valley High Schools scored well in the language part of the proficiency assessment.
Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, every student in grades 3 through 8 must be assessed in language arts literacy and math; they must also be tested once in high school. Students in fourth and eighth grade, and once in high school, must be assessed in science as well.
The results for Wayne are:
Wayne Valley High School
Language: 93.9 Math 85.1
Of those students who passed, 55.4 percent were "proficient" in math and 29.7 percent were "advanced proficient".
Of those students who passed, 68.2 percent were "proficient" in language arts and 25.7 were "advanced proficient".
Wayne Hills High School
Of those students who passed, 66.3 percent were "proficient" in language arts and 28.5 percent were "advanced proficient".
Of those students who passed, 48.9 percent were "proficient" in math and 40.2 percent were "advanced proficient".
Albert P. Terhune Elementary School
Grade 3: Language 68.4, Math: 86.8
Grade 4: Language 85.6, Math 96.4, Science: 97.6
Grade 5: Language 78.6, Math 92.6
Anthony Wayne Middle School
Grade 6: Language 79.1, Math 79.2
Grade 7: Language 84.3, Math 78.2
Grade 8: Language 94.2, Math 73.5, Science 91.7
James Fallon Elementary School
Grade 3: Language 65, Math 86.9
Grade 4: Language 67, Math 72.1, Science 93.1
Grade 5: Language 75.7, Math 91.5
George Washington Middle School
Grade 6: Language 69.6, Math 73.1
Grade 7: Language 78.5, Math 69.6
Grade 8: Language 91.6, Math 77.5, Science 94
John F. Kennedy Elementary School
Grade 3: Language 76.6, Math 87.6
Grade 4: Language 74, Math 87, Science 96.1
Grade 5: Language 73.7, Math 89.6
Lafayette Elementary School
Grade 3: Language 65.5, Math 85.7
Grade 4: Language 78.5, Math 100, Science 100
Grade 5: Language 76.1, Math 94.1
Packanack Lake Elementary School
Grade 3: Language 82.5, Math 95.9
Grade 4: Language 78.5, Math 92.4, Science 98.7
Grade 5: Language 84.1, Math 92
Pines Lake Elementary School
Grade 3: Language 64.3, Math 84.5
Grade 4: Language 70.8, Math 83.4, Science 97.2
Grade 5: Language 76.1, Math 89.1
Randall Carter Elementary School
Grade 3: Language 69.3, Math 90.3
Grade 4: Language 65, Math 81.7
Grade 5: Language 53.2, Math 75.8
Ryerson Elementary School
Grade 3: Langauge 46.2, Math 77
Grade 4: Language 52.9, Math 79.3, Science 98.1
Grade 5: Language 52, Math 72
Schuyler-Colfax Middle School
Grade 6: Language 76, Math 75.3
Grade 7: Language 89.4, Math 80
Grade 8: Language 96.8, Math 86.5, Science 92
Theunis Day Elementary School
Grade 3: Language 53.1, Math 84.4
Grade 4: Language 58, Math 84, Science 97
Grade 5: Language 61.6, Math 87.2