Point Road's Academic Achievement Results High in State But Lagging Peers

Point Road School received high and very high marks compared to the rest of the state, according to data recently released by the New Jersey Department of Education. However, the school was average or lagging in comparison to a peer group.

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. Point Road's peers included Nut Swamp in Middletown, Deane Porter in Rumson and Viola L. Sickles in Fair Haven, among others.

Point Road outperformed 76 percent of the state and 36 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, Point Road ranked above 81 percent of the state and 52 percent of its peer group.

Point Road outperformed 61 percent of the state and 54 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