Marietta Academic Center Aces CRCT

Every fifth-grader at the met or exceeded the standards for all five content areas on the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test.

The school's students narrowly missed pulling off the feat for the third- and fourth-grade CRCTs, falling short of 100 percent only in math, the Georgia Department of Education reported this past week.

The CRCT measures abilities in reading, English/language arts, math, science and social studies.

Third-, fifth- and eighth-graders must meet or exceed the CRCT requirements in reading to advance to the next grade. Fifth- and eighth-graders also must meet the CRCT math standards.

The Marietta Center for Advanced Academics wasn’t the only Marietta city school to do well.

Fourth-graders at improved 17.5 percentage points in science from 2010 with 71.3 percent meeting or exceeding the standard. At , 90.7 percent of fifth-graders met or exceeded the science standard, up from 69.6 percent in 2010.

In seventh grade, students improved in math, from 81 percent meeting or exceeding the standard to 87 percent, and social studies, from 66.1 percent to 71.3 percent.

Among the schools in the Marietta Patch area, third-graders also improved in social studies and math—from 56.4 percent meeting or exceeding the standard to 68.7 percent in social studies and from 81.3 percent to 89.5 percent in math.

third-grade scores in social studies slipped from 84.2 percent meeting or exceeding the standard to 71.7 percent.

In fourth grade, and Dowell each posted better math scores, with increases of 7.7 and 5.3 percentage points, respectively, in pupils meeting or beating the standard.

fifth-graders improved in four of the five content areas, including 100 percent success in reading. fifth-grade math results improved from 81.9 percent to 91.5 percent meeting or exceeding the standard.

fifth-graders improved to 87.9 percent making the standard this year from 79 percent in 2010, but the success in social studies dropped from 61.5 percent to 51 percent.

seventh-graders improved dramatically in science, from 57.1 percent meeting or exceeding the standard in 2010 to 70.8 percent this year.

In reading, 88.6 percent of sixth-graders met or exceeded the standard, up from 84.4 percent in 2010.

Smitha’s eighth-graders slipped in math from 74.6 percent in 2010 to 65.4 percent in 2011 meeting or exceeding the standard and in social studies from 54.3 percent to 46.4 percent making the standard.