Fairfield CMT, CAPT Scores Mostly Improve From Past Year and Past Four Years

The 2010 Connecticut Mastery Test and Connecticut Academic Performance Test results for Fairfield show mostly positive results over results in 2009, and, in some instances, strikingly positive results over test results from 2006.

CMT test results are for grades 3 through 8. The CAPT results are for grade 10.

The most evident decline, from 2009 to 2010, came in grade 5, in which the percentage of students "at or above state goal" declined in three of four subjects - reading, writing and science. Math results increased slightly, by 1.2 percentage points. The results in math, reading and writing, however, were higher than four years ago; in math, the percentage of 5th graders at or above state goal jumped from 74.2 percent in 2006 to 86 percent in 2010.

But the drop that shocked school officials last fall - when grade 10 students meeting state goal in science fell from 75.8 percent to 61.2 percent - rebounded in 2010, with 67.2 percent of students meeting state goal.

Improvement of at least five percentage points in the CMT from 2009 to 2010 could be seen in grade 6 reading results, in which the percentage of students at or above state goal climbed from 83.5 percent in 2009 to 89 percent in 2010.

Improvement of at least five percentage points in the CAPT from 2009 to 2010 could be seen in science results, in which the percentage of 10th graders at or above state goal climbed from 61.2 percent in 2009 to 67.2 percent in 2010, and in writing across the disciplines, in which the percentage of students at or above state goal rose nearly nine percentage points - from 73.5 percent in 2009 to 82.2 percent in 2010.

A decline of at least five percentage points in the CMT from 2009 to 2010 could be seen in grade 3 writing results, in which the percentage of students at or above state goal fell from 78.2 percent in 2009 to 72.1 percent in 2010.

A decline of at least five percentage points in the CAPT from 2009 to 2010 could be seen in reading across the disciplines' results, in which the percentage of 10th graders at or above state goal fell from 72.5 percent in 2009 to 66.6 percent in 2010.

The most positive CMT results could be seen in grades 4, 6, 7 and 8, while results in grades 3 and 5 were mixed, depending on the subject tested.

In grade 4, students at or above state goal on the CMTs rose in all three subjects - math, reading and writing - from both last year and, in all but one case, from 2006.

In the 2010 CMT results for math, 83.7 percent of 4th grade students were at or above the state goal - up from 80.7 percent in 2009 and 71.7 percent in 2006. In the 2010 CMT results for reading, 78.7 percent of 4th grade students were at or above state goal - compared to 78.5 percent in 2009 and 79.1 percent in 2006. And, in the 2010 CMT results for writing, 82.5 percent of 4th grade students were at or above state goal - compared to 80.4 percent in 2009 and 78.6 percent in 2006.

Similarly positive results were seen in CMT results for grade 6.

In the 2010 CMT results for math, 85.4 percent of 6th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 84.7 percent in 2009 and 74.2 percent in 2006. In the 2010 CMT results for reading, 89 percent of 6th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 83.5 percent in 2009 and 83.9 percent in 2006. And, in 2010 CMT results for writing, 88 percent of 6th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 83.1 percent in 2009 and 83.1 percent in 2006.

Grade 7 students also had positive results on the CMT - the 2010 results are higher than results in 2009 and 2006 in all subjects.

In 2010 CMT results for math, 88.3 percent of 7th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 85.6 percent in 2009 and 81.6 percent in 2006. In 2010 CMT results for reading, 92.5 percent of 7th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 88.8 percent in 2009 and 87.4 percent in 2006. And, in 2010 CMT results for writing, 78.8 percent of 7th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 78.5 percent in 2009 and 77.5 percent in 2006.

Students in grade 8, which included science as a tested subject, along with math, reading and writing, had positive scores compared to 2009 and 2006 in all but one instance (the percentage at or above state goal in writing rose from 2009 but was lower compared to 2006.)

In the 2010 CMT results for math, 87.6 percent of 8th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 84 percent in 2009 and 78.9 percent in 2006. In 2010 CMT results for reading, 89 percent of 8th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 84.8 percent in 2009 and 87.6 percent in 2006. In 2010 CMT results for writing, 81.3 percent of 8th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 80.5 percent in 2009 and 81.9 percent in 2006. And, in science, 84.8 percent of 8th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 84.5 percent in 2009 and 82.2 percent in 2008.

Grade 3 results on the CMT were not as positive as results in grades 4, 6, 7 and 8.

In the 2010 CMT results for math, 80.5 percent of 3rd graders were at or above state goal - compared to 80.8 percent in 2009 and 74.7 percent in 2006. In 2010 CMT results for reading, 76.2 percent of 3rd graders were at or above state goal - compared to 73 percent in 2009 and 78.2 percent in 2006. And, in writing, 72.1 percent of 3rd graders were at or above state goal - compared to 78.2 percent in 2009 and 80.8 percent in 2006.

Grade 5 students had the most consistent decline in CMT scores compared to 2009 - the only subject in which results improved was math.

In the math portion of the CMT, 86 percent of 5th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 84.8 percent in 2009 and 74.2 percent in 2006. In the 2010 CMT results for reading, 77.6 percent of 5th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 82.4 percent in 2009 and 77.4 percent in 2006. In the 2010 CMT results for writing, 79.9 percent of 5th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 83.6 percent in 2009 and 75.1 percent in 2006. And, in the 2010 CMT results for science, 75.1 percent of 5th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 77.5 percent in 2009 and 77.4 percent in 2008.

The 2010 CAPT results, which are only for grade 10, showed mixed results. Science and writing test results improved, while math and reading test results declined.

In the 2010 CAPT, 66.2 percent of 10th graders were at or above state goal in math - compared to 70.9 percent in 2009 and 67.8 percent in 2007. In 2010 CAPT results for science, 67.2 percent of 10th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 61.2 percent in 2009 and 67.6 percent in 2007. In 2010 CAPT results for reading across the disciplines, 66.6 percent of 10th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 72.5 percent in 2009 and 67.3 percent in 2007. Lastly, in 2010 CAPT results for writing across the disciplines, 82.2 percent of 10th graders were at or above state goal - compared to 73.5 percent in 2009 and 72.4 percent in 2007.

The following are 2010 CMT and CAPT results for Fairfield, with the percentage at or above state goal and the percentage at or above proficiency:

Grade 3:

Math: 80.5 percent, 92.5 percent;

Reading: 76.2 percent; 86.1 percent;

Writing: 72.1 percent; 89.2 percent

Grade 4:

Math: 83.7 percent, 95.2 percent;

Reading: 78.7 percent, 88.8 percent;

Writing: 82.5 percent, 94.6 percent

Grade 5:

Math: 86 percent, 94.5 percent;

Reading: 77.6 percent, 89.7 percent;

Writing: 79.9 percent, 94.5 percent;

Science: 75.1 percent; 93.1 percent

Grade 6:

Math: 85.4 percent, 96.6 percent;

Reading: 89 percent, 96.4 percent;

Writing: 88 percent, 96.5 percent

Grade 7:

Math: 88.3 percent, 97.6 percent;

Reading: 92.5 percent, 95.6 percent;

Writing: 78.8 percent, 92 percent

Grade 8:

Math: 87.6 percent, 96.5 percent;

Reading: 89 percent, 93.7 percent;

Writing: 81.3 percent, 91.1 percent;

Science: 84.8 percent, 92.1 percent

Grade 10:

Math: 66.2 percent, 92.3 percent;

Science: 67.2 percent, 94.7 percent;

Reading Across the Disciplines: 66.6 percent, 94.3 percent;

Writing Across the Disciplines: 82.2 percent, 96.2 percent