Wiscasset Primary School’s state grade drops to a D
Wiscasset Primary School received word on May 14 that its state report card based on test results has dropped to a D, from last year’s B.
“I’m baffled,” Principal Pat Watts said in a telephone interview. “It’s not like our teachers are slacking off. Everyone’s working very hard.”
To issue the grades to schools around the state, Maine’s Department of Education uses results of the New England Common Assessment Program, NECAP. Students entering third and fourth grades took the test last fall, Watts said.
After learning of the state’s grade, the school immediately began studying the data behind the two-grade drop. So far, she said, “I don’t have a good answer.”
This is the final year the state is basing the grade on the NECAP test. Another test, given in spring, will be used.
Watts predicted the school’s grade will rebound in 2015.
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