See a breakdown of the Spring 2018 Georgia Milestone Assessments at the end of the article.
Dade County, Georgia, third-graders improved on math and reading by more than 10 percentage points this year, according to new data.
The Spring 2018 Georgia Milestone Assessments, released Friday by the Georgia Department of Education, show that about 48 percent of the county school system’s third-grade students were proficient or better on an end-of-the-grade English language arts test. That is 11 percentage points higher than the state average. It’s also 11 percentage points higher than the county’s third-graders scored last year.
On the math assessment, meanwhile, 56.7 percent of the county’s third-grade students were proficient or better. That is 8 percentage points higher than the state average and 11 percentage points higher than the county’s third-graders scored in 2017.
That was also the highest proficiency rate of third-graders in any of Northwest Georgia’s 11 school districts.