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Florida Students Above Average

The Associated Press

Published: May 28, 2008

TALLAHASSEE - Some scores are up and others down, but Florida students again are above average in all grades on reading and math tests used in national comparisons, according to results released Tuesday.

Half of this year's average reading scores are up in grades three through 10 and half are down, compared with 2007, on the norm-referenced tests.

Only two grades are up in math, five are down, and one is unchanged.
Florida students averaged 60 points or more in both subjects in all grades.

The scoring ranges from 1 to 99 with 50 meaning a student did the same or better than half of the children in the nation.

The norm-referenced tests are given along with the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. But only the FCAT is used to grade schools and as a requirement for high school graduation and promotion from the third to fourth grades.
State education officials last week released results from both tests for third-grade students. The remaining FCAT scores will not be released until at least next week.

The most dramatic change from last year was an 11-point increase to 71 in 10th-grade reading. Tenth-graders, however, dropped 4 points to 63 in math.

Here's how the other grades scored compared with 2007:

•Third: reading down 2 points to 60, math down 6 points to 63.

•Fourth: reading up 6 points to 69, math down 6 points to 71.

•Fifth: reading down 1 point to 73, math up 2 points to 77.

•Sixth: reading down 1 point to 65, math up 5 points to 71.

•Seventh: reading up 4 points to 70, math down 1 point to 71.

•Eighth: reading up 1 point to 68, math unchanged at 74.

•Ninth: reading down 4 points to 67, math down 1 point to 73.

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