See How Jefferson Fared On The PARCC 2019 Exam

JEFFERSON, NJ - The results of the standardized tests formerly known as PARCC are in, revealing results for the 2018-2019 school year.

Patch put together the lists of districts, including percentages of students who met or didn't meet expectations. High school math was broken into Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II.

Levels four and five are considered meeting or exceeding expectations, while "Level 1" means they didn't. Just like the past PARCC tests, students met expectations if they performed in the "Level 4" and "Level 5" areas, which is between the scores of 750 and 850, the latter being a perfect score.

Here is how the local districts did out of the roughly 500 ranked:

Algebra I

• Jefferson ranked 227 with 48 percent of students meeting expectations.

Geometry

• Jefferson ranked 181 with percent of students meeting expectations.

Algebra II

• Jefferson ranked 134 with 24.8 percent of students meeting expectations.

3rd grade math

• Jefferson ranked 256 with percent 62 of students meeting expectations.

4th grade math

• Jefferson ranked 294 with 53 percent of students meeting expectations.

5th grade math

• Jefferson ranked 256 with 50.2 percent of students meeting expectations.

6th grade math

• Jefferson ranked 289 with 41.3 percent of students meeting expectations.

7th grade math

• Jefferson ranked 420 with 26.5 percent of students meeting expectations.

8th grade math

• Jefferson ranked 226 with 30.4 percent of students meeting expectations.

3rd grade English

• Jefferson ranked 360 with 44.7 percent of students meeting expectations.

4th grade English

• Jefferson ranked 329 with 55.8 percent of students meeting expectations.

5th grade English

• Jefferson ranked 289 with 60 percent of students meeting expectations.

6th grade English

• Jefferson ranked 306 with 58.3 percent of students meeting expectations.

7th grade English

• Jefferson ranked 402 with 49.8 percent of students meeting expectations.

8th grade English

• Jefferson ranked 277 with 64.5 percent of students meeting expectations.

9th grade English

• Jefferson ranked 130 with 60.9 percent of students meeting expectations.

10th grade English

• Jefferson 134 ranked with 62.5 percent of students meeting expectations.

PARCC tests have been a source of controversy for years, and Gov. Phil Murphy has talked for two years about finding replacements for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test.

The New Jersey Student Learning Assessment (NJSLA) uses the same computer-based platform used for PARCC and draws on the same bank of test questions. Indeed, the NJSLA results in English and math are comparable to the previous years' PARCC results.

However, the biggest difference between this assessment and PARCC is that it's now approximately 25 percent shorter and the number of questions has been reduced.

Patch previously reported on the full list.

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