Hamilton County school district officials and board members are encouraged and enthusiastic going into this year’s TNReady testing season, thanks to data from benchmark tests the district has conducted throughout the school year.
Results from benchmark tests that students have taken at the end of each quarter this school year show growth in almost every tested subject, said Chief of Schools Justin Robertson at a school board meeting Thursday night.
In 2018, only 33.7% of the district’s third-graders were on track in reading, but according to the final benchmarks taken before students went on spring break, 39.9 percent of students are now on track.
In Algebra I, another subject upon which district leaders were laser focused after last year’s result, only 22.1% of students were testing on track last year. Now, however, 28.9% of students are on track.
“Thank you, this is the best news I think I’ve heard in a long time,” said District 2 board member Kathy Lennon.