Schools

Deane-Porter Scores 'Very High' Academic Grade on State Report

The school lags among peers in career/college readiness

When it comes to making the academic grade, Deane-Porter School in Rumson sored "very high" on the new NJ School Performance Report — both statewide and among peers.

The elementary school, where students in grades pre-kindergarten to three are educated, outperformed 96 percent of similar grade level schools in the Academic Achievement category statwide and 89 percent of its peer schools.

That peer group includes those with a student body of similar demographics, such as Fair Haven's Viola L. Sickles School, Little Silver's Point Road and Middletown's Nut Swamp School.

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The academic grade was scored based on the student body's overall knowledge of language arts and math, as demonstrated in NJ ASK testing results.

Schoolwide performance in NJ ASK proficiency showed the school at 93 percent in language arts and 95 percent in math. Statewide, Deane-Porter outpaced 99 percent of schools in language arts and 92 percent in math testing.

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Among peers, on the ASK testing, the school outperformed 94 percent in language arts proficency and 84 percent in math.

It has been noted that it could be a scoring false negative, since the school is an elementary school, but Deane-Porter garnered an "average" rating, outpacing 59 percent of school statewide in the Performance Report's College and Career Readiness category and a low 16 percent of its peers.

"For all elementary and middle schools, this includes a measurement of how many students are chronically absent," the report description said. "For schools with middle school grades, it also includes a measurement of how many students take Algebra I in either seventh or eighth grade."

The school only educates children up to the third grade level. And, as the Fair Haven Board of Education has discussed, the meaning of chronically absent may have been skewed this year with respect to make-up days from Hurricane Sandy taking away vacation time.

Many already had vacation plans and kept their children out of school during the break that was cancelled to make up days.

The report, however, notes that the school is meeting 100 percent of its performance targets in the readiness category.

For more detailed information on the Deane-Porter report, click here and to see how other schools' performance fared, go to http://education.state.nj.us/pr/nav.php?c=25.


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