The county needs to provide them more training, he added. It's predictable that most students would pass at Buist Academy, since they're admitted to that magnet school on the basis of high test scores. Both schools have a high poverty rate. The fact that we have moved people up at every grade level is significant. Everyone must admit that we are on the move.
People feel good about themselves, morale is up.
It could not be a better time for the school district, because everybody is on the same page. Dorchester 2 Students in Dorchester School District 2 made steady progress in every grade in every subject, with minor exceptions. In every other grade, the number of students who failed the test dropped in both English and math. Also in both subjects, students scoring well on the test increased at almost every grade level between 1 and 6 percentage points. That's not enough, Pye said.