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School CRCT scores released
Davis Middle, Honey Creek Elementary shine
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The Georgia Department of Education released individual school scores for the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) and, though fail rates are low for the reading portion of the test, many students struggled with math.

Students in first through eighth grade are required to take the test but only third, fifth and eighth graders are required to pass portions of the test in order to advance to the next grade. First and second grade students take reading, language arts and math while third through eighth take reading, math, language arts, science and social studies. Third grade students must pass the reading portion to advance and fifth and eighth-graders must pass reading and math.

At Barksdale Elementary only two percent of third grade students failed the reading portion of the test, while a little over six percent failed the reading and math portion in fifth grade.

Conyers Middle School eighth graders had a 4.6 percent fail in reading but a 30.3 percent fail in the math test. Edwards Middle School did a little worse with 31.2 percent of eighth grade students failing the math portion and 7.8 percent failing the reading part of the CRCTs.

At Flat Shoals Elementary 11.3 percent of third graders failed the reading portion and 9.2 percent of fifth graders failed the reading, while 15.3 percent failed in math. A mere 1.6 percent of eighth grade students at General Ray Davis Middle School and 17.3 percent failed in math.

Almost 13 percent of Hicks Elementary third grade students failed the reading portion of the test. Of the fifth graders 11.6 percent failed the reading and 20.4 percent failed in the math portion.

Hightower Trail Elementary third graders had a 11.8 percent fail in reading. Fifth grade students had a 10.8 percent fail in reading and a 20.6 percent fail in math. At Honey Creek Elementary there were only 2.5 percent of third grade students that failed the reading portion of the test and one percent of fifth graders failed in reading. There were no students in the fifth grade that failed the math portion.

Of the third graders at House Elementary that took the reading portion of the CRCTs, 7.8 percent failed, while 11.7 percent of fifth graders failed in reading and 16.8 failed in math. Four percent of Lorraine Elementary School third graders failed the reading portion and 2.3 percent of fifth graders failed as well, while only 1.5 percent of fifth graders failed the math portion.

Memorial Middle School students had a 4.1 percent fail in reading and a 32.6 percent fail in math. Peeks Chapel third graders had a 7.2 percent fail in reading and an eight percent fail in fifth grade reading and a 13.4 fail in fifth grade math. Pine Street third graders had a 9.7 percent fail in reading. Fifth graders at the elementary school had an 18.2 percent fail in reading and a 19.7 percent fail in math on the CRCT test.

In Shoal Creek Elementary, 7.2 percent of third graders failed the reading portion and 11.3 percent of fifth graders failed it. Fifth graders did far worse on the math portion of the CRCTs, with 39.5 percent of students who took the test failing it.

At Sims Elementary, 15.6 percent of third grade students failed the reading portion of the test and 10.2 percent of fifth graders failed it. In the math portion of the test, 15.3 percent of fifth graders failed.