Many Mahoning Valley schools perform better than state levels

YOUNGSTOWN

Data released Friday by the Ohio Department of Education shows that many Mahoning Valley school districts performed much better than the statewide performance levels in four testing categories.

A few school districts, including Youngstown City Schools, however, performed well below the statewide level in every subject.

The data show the preliminary results from new standardized testing that began last spring.

The 2014-2015 school year marked the first in which Ohio students took the standardized testing of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, as required by the Common Core curriculum. PARCC sets the bar higher than previous standardized tests such as the Ohio Achievement Assessments and Ohio Graduation Tests.

Students’ performance on PARCC tests in English language arts (ELA), mathematics, science and social studies are scored as limited, basic, proficient, accelerated or advanced. The data released Friday show, among other results, the percentage of students that scored proficient or above.

Read more about the results in Saturday's Vindicator and get the complete results on Vindy.com.