RISON - Rison Elementary students showed some significant improvement in science scores and other subject areas based on year-to-year data presented during the Cleveland County School Board's regular monthly meeting Monday night.Elementary teacher Janson Power presented the board with a handout showing the percentage of students who scored "exceeding" or "ready" on science achievement tests from one year to the next. Scoring "exceeding" or "ready" means that student "passed" the test.Power explained that the results tracked the same group of students from one year to the next rather than a particular grade level for any given year. For example, the 6th grade results were compared to that same group of students while they were in 5th grade.The results compared the scores from the 2022-23 ACT Aspire test given last year to the results on the new ATLAS Interim 2 tests.In the 6th grade, the percentage of students earning a passing grade increased from 44 percent last year to 46 percent this year; 5th grade from 38 percent to 70 percent; 4th grade from 28 percent to 48 percent; and 3rd grade had 31 percent pass the ATLAS test.Meanwhile, the percentage of lessons passed from math iReady testing were: kindergarten, 83 percent; 1st grade, 94 percent; 2nd grade, 93 percent; 3rd grade, 90 percent; 4th grade, 85 percent; 5th grade, 85 percent; and 6th grade, 76 percent.The percentage of lessons passed for literacy on the iReady tests were: kindergarten, 77 percent; 1st grade, 87 percent; 2nd grade, 89 percent; 3rd grade, 81 percent; 4th grade, 73 percent; 5th grade, 79 percent; and 6th grade, 81 percent.Power also reported improvement across the board for students earning points in the Accelerated Reader program.Mowing Bid AcceptedAfter deciding to put the services back out bid after the first round of bids came in higher than expected, the Cleveland County School Board approved a bid from Protech Services of the Grapevine community in Grant County to mow at the Rison and…
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