October 9, 2025 Volume 39, No. 10
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East end students score high marks in province-wide EQAO testing
Volunteer actors are ready to scare the daylights out of visitors to the sKreamers Haunted Barn and Wagon Ride at the Proulx Farm. See story on page 7. FRED SHERWIN PHOTO
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 across Ontario 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.
Grade 3 students in the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE) scored five per cent higher than the provincial average for French language school boards in Ontario in math, six per cent higher in reading and 10 per cent higher in writing. Meanwhile, CECCE students in Grade 6 scored six per cent higher than the provincial average in math, one per cent higher in reading and eight per cent higher in writing. Students enrolled in the Ottawa Catholic School Board (OCSB) also outpaced their provincial counterparts. Grade 3 students in the OCSB scored six per cent higher in math among English language schools in the province, four per cent higher in reading and seven per cent higher in writing. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2