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economist sunsuntribune education saturday jan 15 2005 st justin martyr st angela merici first in eqao testing by roy green staff writer though theyre at the opposite ends of the most recent eqao scores the principals of two wood- bridge schools agree on one thing there are many factors contributing to the results of the annual tests from the education quality and accountability office while a strong partnership between parents and the school is a major factor according to ada marchesini principal of st angela merici catholic school it is just one reason the school did so well in tests conducted last spring the school was first among separate board schools in grade 6 tests and third place in grade 3 tests there is a very very strong rela tionship with the home ms marchesini said this week we strive toward excellence and the message students get is that we board raises 216000 in one day for tsunami relief in just one day york regions catholic schools raised 216 000 for tsunami victims in southeast asia the york catholic district school board declared jan 7 tsunami dis aster relief day it didnt take long before backpacks full of loonies twoonies and cash were being hauled into school offices across the board i knew we were a caring and charitable school board but the amount of giving and show of con cern for victims of such devastation and disaster is remarkable said catholic board director of educa tion susan larose adding the money was raised across 88 schools one of them st joseph catholic elementary school in richmond hill made a special donation grade 4 student kyle stevens celebrated his 10th birthday jan 9 the next day he walked into school with a blue envelope and handed his principal 360 of birthday money i did a double take i thought it was from his class principal ellen walters recalled hes a very quiet unassuming kid and he made that decision on his own and were real ly proud of him he represents what were trying to achieve with all the kids a very generous but unassuming way of being amylazar expect excellence both at home and in school but mere are other vari ables so many i couldnt begin to list them all just blocks away at st catherine of siena catholic school new prin cipal tom sheedy is putting the final touches on an action plan designed to lift the school from last place in the grade 3 panel and 73rd place in the grade 6 scores we were impacted big time by a high number of esl and special education students but tliere are a lot ofother factors and they must all be analysed mr sheedy said we have already presented the results of the analysis to the parent council and they had no idea of the com plexity of factors overall the york catholic boards grade 3 average of 71 and grade 6 average of 72 was tops in ontario the board is encouraged by those numbers according to patri cia preston superintendent of cur riculum although its hard to generalize we can see a nice strong founda tion ms preston said many of our schools that stnjggled at the begin ning of the eqao process have moved up and we now have a pro gram to identify schools that were struggling students are graded on a scale of one to four with four being the high est in reading writing and math scores reflect the percentage of stu dents who achieve at least a level three which is defined as knowl edge understanding and applica tion of skills in each subject in the tests conducted last spring 100 per cent of st angela mericis grade 6 students reached at least a level three in reading 96 per cent did so in writing and 98 per cent did so in math for an overall average of 98 at the grade 3 level students scored 94 in reading 88 in writing and 92 in math for an average of 91 grade 3 students at st catherine of siena scored 24 in reading 34 m writing and 38 in math for an aver age of 32 at the grade 6 level the scores were 61 in reading 58 in writing and 29 in math for an aver age of 49 of 76 catholic schools in the region 45 were at or above the board average of 71 at the grade 3 level and 19 were below the provin cial average of 62 at the grade 6 level 45 were at or above the board level of 72 and 12 fell below the provincial average the results these scores indicate how each york catholic school performed on grades 3 and 6 testing last year for reading writing and math students were graded on a scale of one to four with four being the highest the numbers reflect the percentage of students who finished at levels three and four percentages were averaged for rank ing purposes level three is the provincial standard scores are reported using eqaos method 2 results meaning only those students who wrote the tests are included in the results students who were eligible to write the test but were deferred or absent on the day the test was given are excluded statistics compiled by york region newspaper group using information provided by the york catholic district school board legend a aurora eg east gwillimbury g georgina k keswick kt king township m markham ma maple n newmarket rh- richmond hill sch schomberg su sutton th thomhill u unionville v vaughan w woodbridge ws whitchurchstouffville reading writing math avg rankschool grade 3 1 st justin martyr u 98 97 100 98 2 st patrick sch 100 94 98 97 3 st angela merici w 94 88 92 91 4 st anne rh 90 88 93 90 5 st emily w 82 89 92 88 6 canadian martyrs n 93 77 90 87 7 ail saints u 83 83 92 86 8 st michaelth 82 83 93 86 9 our lady of gracea 75 85 96 85 10 holy name kt 87 73 94 85 11 st patricks m 75 96 82 84 12 st rene goupilst luketh 79 79 94 84 13 st paul n 90 67 94 84 14st monica m 85 85 80 83 15 st agnes of assislw 84 79 86 83 16 st joseph the worker th 84 77 88 83 17 corpus christj rh 66 85 95 82 18 st francis of asslsi w 72 74 98 81 19 our lady help of christians rh 76 86 81 81 20 sir richard w scott m 76 80 87 81 21 st anthonyth 85 78 78 80 22 st joseph rh 71 80 90 80 23 john xxiii u 67 73 100 80 24 mother theresa m 63 91 86 80 25 our lady of good counsel eg 89 61 89 80 26 st charles gamier rh 71 80 87 79 27 st benedict u 76 83 78 79 28 kateritekakwitha m 73 72 89 78 29 st edward m 74 77 83 78 30 st mary kt 77 70 86 78 31 st john boscow 74 76 82 77 32 st matthew u 75 81 75 77 33 st mary immaculate rh 77 70 83 77 34 st stephen w 75 73 81 76 35 good shepherd eg 77 66 85 76 36 our lady of peace ma 70 77 77 75 37 st peter w 65 71 88 75 38 san marcow 72 80 69 74 39 st brigld ws 72 72 76 73 40 st joseph m 56 81 79 72 41 father john kelly ma 68 72 75 72 42 our lady of the rosary v 64 75 75 71 43 st francis xavier m 60 88 64 71 44 our lady of hope rh 64 58 86 69 45 our lady of annunciation rh 68 76 63 69 46 notre dame n 64 66 75 68 47 blessed trinity ma 58 75 70 68 48 st nicholas n 57 70 76 68 49 st mark ws 64 55 82 67 50 light of chrlsta 58 63 79 67 51 st margaret mary w 60 67 73 67 52 father henri nouwen rh 57 72 69 66 rankschool reading writing 53 st david ma 58 54 pope john paul ii rh 74 55 holy jubilee ma 60 56 divine mercy ma 56 57 st elizabeth seton n 61 58 christ the king rh 44 59 immaculate conception w 51 60 st gregory the great w 51 61 st josepha 61 62 our lady of farjma w 55 63 st clement w 39 64stvincentdepaulm 53 65 st gabriel the archangel w 53 66 bishop scalabrinith 58 67 st thomas aquinas k 55 68 st john chrysostom n 47 69 st clare w 57 70 holy family th 48 71 holy spirit a 46 72 st andrew w 46 73 st bernadettesu 54 74 prince of peace k 41 75 st james ma 35 76 st catherine of siena w 24 board average 66 provincial average 58 grade 6 1 st angela mericiw 100 96 2 st patricks m 97 96 3 st justin martyr u 97 92 4 st john chrysostom n 91 91 5 pope john paul ii rh 90 93 6 john xxiii u 97 88 7 st elizabeth seton n 91 84 8 st michael th 85 86 9 all saints u 88 82 10 st benedict u 83 83 11 st monica m 86 83 12 stagnes of asslsi w 87 73 13 holy name kt 88 73 14 st joseph m 85 76 15 st stephen w 82 80 16 st joseph the worker th 83 80 17 st francis xavier m 81 85 18 st charles gamier rh 85 77 19 stanthonyth 77 85 20 st paul n 80 67 21 st matthew u 83 83 22 st vincent de paul m 90 63 23 st francis of asslsi w 85 73 24 st patrick sch 85 76 math avg rankschool reading writing math avg 72 66 65 65 56 65 67 65 64 58 75 63 49 79 63 67 74 62 71 63 62 67 67 62 67 55 61 67 60 61 57 84 60 71 56 60 61 63 59 63 54 58 59 61 58 70 56 58 60 55 57 58 65 57 59 58 54 55 56 52 50 50 51 43 69 51 67 42 48 34 38 32 72 76 71 61 68 62 98 98 97 97 96 95 98 93 94 92 88 91 93 89 96 89 95 88 90 85 86 85 93 84 91 84 91 84 90 84 88 84 84 83 85 82 83 82 97 81 77 81 88 80 81 80 77 79 25 holy famiiyth 76 79 26 christ the king rh 81 77 27 corpus chrlsti rh 83 74 28 st gregory the great w 88 77 29 our lady help of christians rh 81 81 30 immaculate conception w 73 75 31 ught of christa 75 75 32 bishop scalabrini 77 64 33 st mary kt 84 70 34 mother theresa m 76 74 35 san marco w 79 66 36 father john kelly ma 70 81 37 father henri nouwen rh 71 72 38 blessed trinity ma 87 72 39 st clement w 75 67 40 st rene goupilst luke 73 59 41 our lady of the rosary v 69 70 42 st peter w 70 63 43 st edward m 70 71 44 kateritekakwitha m 69 73 45 our lady of hope rh 77 77 46 st thomas aquinas k 74 66 47 canadian martyrs n 70 72 48 st joseph rh 75 70 49 sir richard w scott m 73 69 50 notre dame n 71 64 51 st emily w 72 58 52 st john boscow 71 63 53 st clare w 66 74 54 our lady of grace a 67 82 55 our lady of fatjma w 65 74 56 our lady of peace ma 68 69 57 st mark ws 70 64 58 st mary immaculate rh 71 60 59 our lady of good counsel eg 70 62 60 st bemadette su 65 66 61 holy spirit a 68 59 62 st nicholas n 59 66 63 st josepha 66 64 64 st anne rh 66 52 65 st margaret mary w 65 50 66 good shepherd eg i 55 61 67 st gabriel the archangel w 55 71 68 our lady of annunciation rh 64 51 69 st brigld ws 57 59 70 st david ma 53 53 71 st james ma 57 62 72 holy jubilee ma 48 45 73 st catherine of siena w 61 58 74 divine mercy ma 45 55 75 prince of peace k 52 43 76 st andrew w 47 49 board average 73 71 provincial average 61 57 82 79 78 79 79 79 71 79 73 78 85 78 79 76 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