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Hamilton Students Among the County's Best in Test Scores
The district in the top three in several categories in latest WKCE results.
Students in the are continuing to show strong results in the state's standardized test scores, as the latest results show 95.1 percent of students scoring proficient or advanced in reading and 93.5 percent achieving that level in math.
“Our students are showing progress as they go through the district. We track a cohort group so that we can determine if they have maintained or increased their academic performance relative to their grade level peers," district spokeswoman Denise Dorn Lindberg said. “We’ve found that when we look at student performance...students' achievement increases as they go through the district.
“As they progress through our district, more students are in advanced and proficient categories, and fewer are in the basic and minimal categories," she added. "The longer we have them, the better they do on the state standardized tests.”
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The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction recently released the results of the November Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination, which measures yearly learning progress for students to assess district achievement.
Lindberg said typically more than 90 percent of Hamilton students score proficient and advanced in nearly every subject area and grade level. In the latest results, from the 2010-11 school year, Hamtion was near the top of the 11 Waukesha County School Districts at every level.
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Hamilton finished in the top three for county districts in a number of categories, including third-grade reading and math; fourth-grade reading, math and social studies; fifth-grade reading; sixth grade reading and math; seventh-grade reading and math; eighth-grade reading, math, language arts and science; and 10th-grade reading and language arts.
In the 2009-10 school year, 92.5 percent of Hamilton students scored proficient or advanced in both reading and math, and in the 2008-09 school year, 92 percent scored proficient or advanced in reading, while 92.5 percent scored proficient or advanced in math.
“We have a strategic plan with strategies that align with the achievement results we are seeing,” Lindberg said. “Our success is intentional and we have planned for it.”
WKCE Test Scores in Hamilton School District and Wisconsin
2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 FOURTH GRADE
Reading-Hamilton 93.9 91.4 93.4 N/A Reading-Statewide 82 80 81 80 Language-Hamilton 87.6 89.1 88 N/A Language-Statewide 75 76 75 75 Math-Hamilton 93 92.4 94.4 N/A Math-Statewide 79 80 80 80 Science-Hamilton 88.7 88.8 89.3 N/A Science-Statewide 77 76 75 75 Social Studies-Hamilton 97.2 98 99 N/A Social Studies-Statewide 90 92 91 91
2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 EIGHTH GRADE
Reading-Hamilton 97 96.1 90.4 96.4 Reading-Statewide 86 83 84 84 Language-Hamilton 77.1 80.5 77.5 70.9 Language-Statewide 61 64 62 62 Math-Hamilton 94.3 93.3 91.6 94 Math-Statewide 78 77 78 75 Science-Hamilton 89.5 90 84.7 86.2 Science-Statewide 77 79 74 73 Social Studies-Hamilton 91.9 91.7 88.9 93.3 Social Studies-Statewide 81 80 79 80
2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 TENTH GRADE
Reading-Hamilton 89.7 92 88.8 93.2 Reading-Statewide 74 76 74 74 Language-Hamilton 90.3 88.4 86.5 88.9 Language-Statewide 70 67 70 70 Math-Hamilton 87 87.4 84.8 86.7 Math-Statewide 70 69 69 68 Science-Hamilton 89.4 87.1 87.5 91.5 Science-Statewide 73 71 71 72 Social Studies-Hamilton 92.1 88.1 89.8 91.9 Social Studies-Statewide 79 74 75 76
Source: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
