Dateline: June 17, 2004

TAKS results please Hedley ISD officials 

By Ashlee Kidd, Clarendon Enterprise

Results from the TAKS test administered to the students at Hedley schools this spring are in, and the administration is very pleased with the outcome.

Students in grades three through eleven were given the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) exam this year, and Hedley ISD superintendent Bryan Hill says the results look good.

“We’re real proud of our test scores,” Hill said. “There are some areas we need to improve on; but for the most part, we’re real tickled.”

State law requires that third-graders must pass the reading portion of the exam to be promoted to fourth grade, and 100 percent of the third-graders at Hedley ISD passed.

The third grade students also were tested in math and scored 90 percent, which meets the state average of 90 percent.

Hedley fourth graders scored above the state and regional averages in reading, math, and writing with 100 percent of the students passing all three tests.

The fifth grade students in Hedley scored above the state average of 79 percent in reading with 87 percent passing, but fell below the state averages in math and science. 80 percent passed in math compared to the state average of 82 percent, and in science 47 percent passed compared to the average of 69 percent.

Sixth grade students in Hedley were tested in math and reading. They outscored the state average of 77 percent in math with 85 percent passing, and in reading 100 percent passed.

The seventh graders were tested in three areas and fell below the state averages in reading and writing. 78 percent passed in reading compared to the state average of 83, in writing 80 percent passed compared to the average of 91 percent, and the students met the state average of 70 percent in writing.

HISD’s eighth graders scored above the state averages in reading and social studies, but fell short of the state average in math with 57 percent passing compared to the average of 66 percent.

Hedley’s ninth graders exceeded the state averages in both reading and math while the tenth graders surpassed the state averages in writing, math, social studies, and science.

Hedley’s juniors scored above state averages on three of the four areas of the exam they were tested in with passing rates of 100 percent on the writing exam, 100 percent on social studies, 100 percent in science, and 83 percent in math. The state average scores were writing 87 percent, social studies 97, science 85, and math 85.