Eagleville School Scores High

Eagleville School scores were straight A’s on the 2007 state report card in math, reading/language arts, social studies and science.

The scores are up from last year’s two A’s and two B’s. The A’s last year were earned in math and reading/language, with the B’s being in social studies and science.

The report card tracks student achievement in grades 3-8 on tests in the four subjects. Grades are also issued for value-added gains, which measure how well students show progress from the previous year regardless of skill level.

Eagleville’s value added grades, which are three-year averages, are up from the year before. The scores reported in 2007 are A’s in reading/language and science, a B in math and C in social studies.

"These scores have really improved," Principal Rhonda Holton said. "The teachers and students have just worked really hard, and we are learning better every year how to analyze throughout the year and go back and reteach to move kids forward."

Holton said Eagleville teachers have attended differential instruction conferences, which has paid off in the value added area.

"We have to look at it from the standpoint of children who are kind of struggling and move them forward," she said. "The children who are normal average, we have to make sure they get a year’s growth and then the kids who may be gifted or extremely bright (have to receive a year’s growth)."

Teachers are challenged to differentiate their instruction to meet all those different learners, she said.

The report card, which the state released Nov. 2, also provides a profile of demographics and attendance and graduation rates.

The school profile shows Eagleville, which is a prekindergarten through 12th grade school, had 718 students in the 2006-2007 school year.

The demographics show that the student body is 5.6 percent African American, 0.5 percent Asian/Pacific Islander, 0.8 percent Hispanic, about 93 percent white and one student of Native American or Alaskan descent. The report shows the student body has 6 percent more males than females.

For 2007, Eagleville had a 94.9 percent attendance rate for grades K-8 compared to the state goal of 93 percent. In grades 9-12, the attendance rate was about 93 percent which is the state goal.

According to the report as published on the state department of education website, the graduation rate at Eagleville was 95.6 percent in 2006. The report noted the graduation rate is under revision for the 2007 school year. The state graduation rate goal was 90 percent.

The 2007 report card is based on performance and statistics from the 2006-2007 school year.

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