Around four in ten Delaware public school students failed to meet new state proficiency standards in both reading and math during the 2010-11 school year, according to results from an overhauled testing system, released on Thursday.
In science, fewer than half the students met higher standards set by the Delaware Comprehensive Assessment System (DCAS), while around 60 percent made the grade in social studies.
Proficiency levels from the first full year of DCAS testing had been expected to drop sharply from those recorded by the old Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP) which set lower standards.
But officials said the score decline was not as great as predicted.
“The previous standards may have indicated a higher percentage of students meeting expectations but that was because the bar was lower,” the state Department of Education said in a statement.
“The new expectations better measure how children need to be prepared to succeed when competing with students around the nation and around the world,” the department said.
To see the full results of the 2011 Delaware Comprehensive Assessment System (DCAS) tests click here
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