You've got to beat that standard. That's hard when you're talking about different kids. As a school moves more students into high-performing levels, it is more difficult to maintain a high grade. Dunedin Highland Middle School, for example, saw a decrease in the number of students reading at the lowest level from 23 percent to 17 percent. The school needs to get that down to 15 percent next year to try to hang on to its A, principal Peggy Landers said.
Principals say the answer to that question is no.
They don't think a school can change so drastically in only one year. But they do think they can learn from the testing experience. But I don't think we did enough practice with the reading as well as we did with the math. Long before students were tested, Safety Harbor teachers had planned to target reading next year, Barker said. St. Petersburg Times.