October 10, 2024 • Volume 39, No. 10
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East end students fare well in provincewide test results
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By Fred Sherwin The Orléans Star Area students have once again proven themselves well in province-wide testing conducted by the Education Quality and Accountability Office last year in the areas of math, reading, writing and literacy. More than 400,000 students in grades 3, 6 and 9 took the EQAO tests. Students in Grade 3 and 6 took the tests in reading, writing and math, while students in Grade 9 took the math and literacy tests. When examining the results on a board-byboard basis, students in the French language Catholic board not only outperformed their peers in the Ottawa’s English public and English Catholic school boards, they outperformed students across the province. The French public school board did not take part in last year’s testing. Grade 3 students in the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE) scored
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five per cent higher than the provincial average for French language school boards in Ontario in math, six per cent higher in reading and nine per cent higher in writing. Meanwhile, CECCE students in Grade 6 scored six per cent higher than the provincial average among French language school boards in math, one per cent higher in reading and seven per cent higher in writing. The results are much more glaring when compared to the province’s English language school boards. Grade 3 students in the CECCE scored 18 per cent higher in math than the provincial average for English language school boards, 19 per cent higher in reading and 13 per cent higher in writing. Grade 6 students in the CECCE scored 14 per cent higher in math than the provincial average for English language school boards, 16 per cent higher in reading and two per cent CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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