Literacy test results revealed
Posted Jun 16, 2010 08:09:30 AM.
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The latest Grade 10 literacy test results show teens in Waterloo region are in line with the provincial average.
The Waterloo Region District School Board says 85 percent of students who took the test this year, passed it.
That’s slightly above the provincial average of 84 percent.
The Catholic board’s results were a little lower than the provincial average, at 83 percent. That’s one percent below last year’s results.
The number of boys in Catholic schools who passed the test dropped by four percent to 78, while the number of girls who passed rose slightly, to 87 percent.
Also, the success rate for English as a second language students in both districts went up.
Students who didn’t pass the test must take the Ontario Secondary School Literacy course in order to graduate.
