A] 4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 15, 2000 % of Grade 10 students meeting or exceeding expectations 90 80 70 60 50 * 40 30 20 10 Coast Mtns. Prince Aupert ' Nisga'a Stikine Butkiey Valley SCHOOL DISTRICT “h, Wi Reading El Writing CE] Numeracy B.C. Average Students make the grade at basic school skill level By JENNIFER LANG STUDENTS IN the Coast Mountains School District earned a passing grade in — a province-wide checkup that looked at basic read- ing, writing and mathe- matic skills. Overall, students tested last May here met or ex- ceeded education ministry . expectalions, according to the individual school dis- trict results that have just been released. Students in Grades 4, 7 and 10 here are performing better than their counter- parts in the Prince Rupert and Nisga’a school dis- tricts, and are just short of the provincial average. At the Grade 4 level, students in this district are having some trouble read- ing, with 30 per cent of those tested not meeting the ministry’s standards. It’s the-same story with numeracy (arithmetic and mathematics) skills, with 31 per cent not meeting standards. But they fared -much - © better in writing, with just 14 per cent not meeting expectations. In other words, 86 per cent of Grade 4 students here meet or exceed read- ing levels. That’s higher , than the provincial aver- age of 80 per cent for reading skilks. The provincial average is 90 per cent for writing and 79 per cent for numer- acy skills. By Grade 7, 40 per cent of students aren’t writing to their grade level, 35 per cent are not meeting num- eracy skill levels, and 30 per cent are not reading as well as they should be. That's lower than the provincial averages for all three skill categories. At the Grade 10 level, 36 per cent of Coast Mountains students are not writing to ministry stan- dards, the numeracy skills of 42 per cent are under par, but just 28 per cent are reading below stan- dards for their grade level, The B.C. Teachers’ Fe- deration has criticized the 2000 Foundation Skills Assessment, saying it doesn’t take socio-econo- mic factors into account. Indeed, the results do show that students from lower cconamiec brackets like the Vancouver east side and the province’s first nations students aren’t performing on par with the provincial average, either, according to the ministry’s results. That sald, the ministry does point out that most aboriginal students in Grades 4 and 7 do meet or exceed expectations in all three areas. 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