Smith Walter G School

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Public | Grades: KG-8 | 437 students
District: Philadelphia City School District

     1900 Wharton St
     Philadelphia, PA  19146-4610

     (215) 952-6222

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PSSA			Students tested			% met standard
Test	Year	Grade	School	District	State	School	District	State
Math	2005	3rd Grade	n/a	n/a	n/a	33	52	81
Math	2006	3rd Grade	n/a	n/a	n/a	47	59	83
Math	2007	3rd Grade	n/a	n/a	n/a	54.7	52.4	78.5
Math	2008	3rd Grade	n/a	n/a	n/a	54.2	55.3	80.5
Math	2009	3rd Grade	46	11,864	127,268	41.3	59.5	81.7
Math	2010	3rd Grade	32	11,798	126,676	43.7	66.5	84.5
Math	2011	3rd Grade	49	11,360	124,749	12.2	66.8	83.5
Math	2012	3rd Grade	49	11,557	126,139	24.4	49.4	80

Source:  Pennsylvania Dept of Education

The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment, also known as PSSA, measures how well students have achieved in reading, mathematics, science and writing according to Pennsylvania’s world-class academic standards. By using these standards, educators, parents and administrators can evaluate their students’ strengths and weaknesses to increase students’ achievement scores. According to the federal No Child Left Behind Act, students must be 100% proficient in reading and math by 2014.

The PSSA results allow schools and districts to evaluate their students’ progress to make full proficiency a reality. Today’s eighth graders will be 11th graders by the year 2014 when full proficiency must be reached.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act requires states to determine annually whether schools and districts in Pennsylvania make Adequate Yearly Progress, also known as AYP. The 2009-10 targets were 56% proficient or advanced in math and 63% proficient or advanced in reading.

Source: Pennsylvania Department of Education