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Recently released test scores revealed students in the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Hartford are exceeding the state and national averages in a number of standardized tests.
These scores, including those on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) and SAT, exceed the outstanding results from the previous year, according to Director of Curriculum Design of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Hartford Valerie Mara.
“It’s like an Olympic Gold Medalist beating his own record,” Mara said. “These exemplary scores indicate that our Catholic school students will be prepared to tackle the challenges that lie ahead in college as well as future career aspirations.”
This year, as in the past, students at Saint Martha School in Enfield did extremely well on all subtests of this battery - math, reading, language arts, science, and social studies. Students take ITBS in the seventh month (March) of each school year and should achieve minimally a grade equivalent score of the seventh month of whatever grade they are in. The students of Saint Martha's far exceeded these requirements.
“I commend our students for their hard work and commitment in the classroom. It is evident that they work extremely hard in order to achieve such outstanding results,” Superintendent of Catholic Schools Dale R. Hoyt said in a news release.
“I also want to express heartfelt gratitude to our teachers, principals, and school staffs who serve as excellent role models and are steadfast and conscientious about executing our mission of fostering a culture of educational excellence through critical thinking with an emphasis on moral education, community and service,” Hoyt said.
The students in the nine high schools in the Archdiocese were higher in all areas of the SAT and were particularly strong in the writing and reading sections. The averages for the Catholic school students were 523 in reading, 519 in mathematics, and 527 in writing. The average for Connecticut public high schools was 502 in reading, 505 in mathematics, and 506 in writing. National averages were 497 in reading, 514 in mathematics, and 489 in reading.
In the ITBS scores, the Catholic school students exceeded the national averages in reading, math, language arts, social studies, and science, according to the Archdiocese. The scores are reported in national percentiles and grade equivalency. The Archdiocese of Hartford students measured in the top 20 percent of nationally tested students.
Seventh graders in the Archdiocesan schools tested at an eleventh graded level in language arts, tenth grade level in science, and ninth grade levels in reading, math, and social studies.
Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Hartford welcome students of all faiths, ethnic groups and socio-economic backgrounds.
