Markham Place Outperforms 90% of State in Academic Achievement, Student Growth

Markham Place received higher marks than most schools across the state, according to data released by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) last week. When compared to peer schools, Markham Place received average and high-performing scores.

The state's new performance reports, which replace the school report cards issued in past years, rates schools on standardized test results, college and career readiness and student growth at the middle school level. 

The performance report looks at a school's ranking compared to the rest of the state and to a peer group with a similar demographic. Markham Place's peer group includes William Satz Intermediate School in Holmdel, Cedar Drive School in Colts Neck and Orange Avenue School in Cranford, among others.

Markham Place outperformed 96 percent of the state and 81 percent of its peer group on academic achievement, which takes into account New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) results.

On the college and career readiness metric, which considers chronic absence results and the number of middle schoolers taking Algebra I, Markham Place ranked above 72 percent of the state and 51 percent of its peer group.

Markham Place outperformed 92 percent of the state and 85 percent of peers on the report's student growth metric, which measures NJ ASK scores from one year to the next.

Schools scoring above the 80th percentile are considered very high performing; the 60th to 79.9th percentile is high performing; the 40th to 59.9th percentile is average performing; the 20th to 39.9th percentile is lagging; and scores below the 19.9th percentile are considered significantly lagging, according the state's scoring metric.

To see how other schools in the area fared, click the link here: http://education.state.nj.us/pr/nav.php?c=25