All California students in grades 2-11 take annual standardized tests as part of the state's Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. The California Standards Tests (CST) is taken by the majority of students, but other tests include California Alternate Performance Assessment (CAPA), Standards-based Tests in Spanish (STS), California Modified Assessment (CMA) and the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE). The charts below show the percentage of students at Cecil Avenue Middle School who met or exceeded California's proficiency standards for the tests indicated.
English Language Arts
CST Exam Scores (2011): 196 students tested - State percentile rank: 10.
Mathematics
CST Exam Scores (2011): 196 students tested - State percentile rank: 23.
Grade 7
Algebra I
CST Exam Scores (2011): 31 students tested - State percentile rank: 56.
English Language Arts
CST Exam Scores (2011): 223 students tested - State percentile rank: 16.
Mathematics
CST Exam Scores (2011): 191 students tested - State percentile rank: 25.
Algebra I
CST Exam Scores (2011): 203 students tested - State percentile rank: 62.
English Language Arts
CST Exam Scores (2011): 267 students tested - State percentile rank: 21.
General Mathematics
CST Exam Scores (2011): 61 students tested - State percentile rank: 7.
History Social Science Grade 8
CST Exam Scores (2011): 269 students tested - State percentile rank: 45.
Science Grade 5, Grade 8, and Grade 10 Life Science
CST Exam Scores (2011): 267 students tested - State percentile rank: 34.
End of Course ExamsEnd-of-Course exams are similar to exams often taken upon completing a class, but end-of-course exams are standardized tests given by the state. Proponents for end-of-course exams say they better predict success at the college level than say grades or other exit exams. The Center on Policy Education (CPE), a Washington, DC based education research organization, predicts that by 2014 at least 14 states will require end-of-course exams in subjects like English, algebra and biology. There are critics of end-of-course exams who claim students are already tested too much, and adding these exams on top of the litany of tests students are already required to take just adds to the pressure students face. The cost of administering these exams is another concern often cited by critics.
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Algebra I
CST Exam Scores (2011): 234 students tested - State percentile rank: 79.
End of Course ExamsEnd-of-Course exams are similar to exams often taken upon completing a class, but end-of-course exams are standardized tests given by the state. Proponents for end-of-course exams say they better predict success at the college level than say grades or other exit exams. The Center on Policy Education (CPE), a Washington, DC based education research organization, predicts that by 2014 at least 14 states will require end-of-course exams in subjects like English, algebra and biology. There are critics of end-of-course exams who claim students are already tested too much, and adding these exams on top of the litany of tests students are already required to take just adds to the pressure students face. The cost of administering these exams is another concern often cited by critics.
[close window] End of Course ExamsEnd-of-Course exams are similar to exams often taken upon completing a class, but end-of-course exams are standardized tests given by the state. Proponents for end-of-course exams say they better predict success at the college level than say grades or other exit exams. The Center on Policy Education (CPE), a Washington, DC based education research organization, predicts that by 2014 at least 14 states will require end-of-course exams in subjects like English, algebra and biology. There are critics of end-of-course exams who claim students are already tested too much, and adding these exams on top of the litany of tests students are already required to take just adds to the pressure students face. The cost of administering these exams is another concern often cited by critics.
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General Mathematics
CST Exam Scores (2011): 61 students tested - State percentile rank: 10.
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