Five Paulding Schools Top State CRCT Average

The Paulding County School District had three elementary and two middle schools top the state averages on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests in all five content areas, the Georgia Department of Education announced.

Students in third, fourth and fifth grade at Burnt Hickory, McGarity and Russom elementary schools surpassed the state averages in all five CRCT grade-level sections. Baggett, Shelton, Roberts and Dugan elementary schools had two grades that recorded better scores than the state average in the five content areas.

The CRCT measures third- to eighth-grade students’ abilities in reading, English/language arts, math, science and social studies.

Students in third, fifth and eighth grade must meet or exceed the grade requirements on the CRCT in reading to advance according to state law. Fifth- and eighth-grade students also need to meet or exceed expectations on the CRCT in mathematics to move on to the next grade.

Northside Elementary third-graders improved their math scores 16.6 percent to 89.2 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. Poole students raised their social studies score 9.7 percent to 75 percent.

Third-grade students at Dallas saw their scores decrease significantly in all five content areas, including 27 percent in math to 53.8 percent and 20 percent in social studies to 58.2 percent. P.B. Ritch students’ score fell 21.4 percent in math to 68.8 percent.

Dallas fourth-graders posted better scores in all five content areas. The math score increased 24.4 percent to 78.9 percent and the social studies score jumped 19.7 percent to 69.7 percent. Hutchens students bettered their math scores 16.7 percent to 90.5 percent. McGarity’s math scores declined 12.3 percent to 82.6 percent.

Ragsdale fifth-graders turned in dramatic improvements in all five sections, highlighted by a 21.8 percent jump in math to 84.5 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. McGarity social studies scores increased 14.7 percent to 79.6 percent, while its students also averaged 99.1 percent in both reading and English/language arts. Baggett math scores climbed 14.4 percent to 92.2 percent.

Fifth-graders at P.B. Ritch saw their social studies score plummet 27.2 percent to 40.3 percent and their science score fall 14.8 percent to 56.5 percent.

Herschel Jones Middle sixth-graders improved their social studies score 19.1 percent to 70.5 percent. Students at Scoggins raised their social studies score 17.5 percent to 68.1 percent. Math scores dropped at South Paulding Middle by 6.6 percent to 71.6 percent.

Herschel Jones seventh graders achieved better scores in all five content areas, including 12.3 percent in science to 87.6 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. McClure students raised their science score 12.5 percent to a district-best 93.5 percent.

McClure eighth-graders improved their average math score 9.5 percent to district-best 93.1 percent and bettered their reading score 2.3 percent to a district-best 99.7 percent. Moses students were right behind McClure in the reading with an average score of 99.3 percent.

Math scores for East Paulding eighth-graders dropped 10.8 percent to 56.2 percent and declined in science 8.5 percent to 51.7 percent.