Superintendent: Middletown Students Excel in CMT Reading Scores

Middletown students in grades three to eight continued an uphill trend on Connecticut Mastery Test performance in reading scores, according to the State Department of Education's figures released today. 

"Overall the growth in reading scores are outstanding," says Superintendent of Schools Dr. Michael Frechette. "This continues the trend for the past four years."

Frechette will sit down with Middletown Patch tomorrow to go over the data for city students. See the attached pdf for grade-by-grade breakouts.

Connecticut students fared generally better than in 2010, according to the State Board of Education, continuing a trend of incremental improvement over previous years. CMTs assess 250,000 students on their application of skills and knowledge in the academic content areas of mathematics, reading and writing in grades three through eight, and science in grades five and eight.

This year marks the sixth administration of the Fourth Generation CMT, which was first administered in March 2006.

The CMT has five student performance levels for each content area tested: Below Basic, Basic, Proficient, Goal and Advanced. The Proficient level is used to identify schools and districts that are making “Adequate Yearly Progress” under No Child Left Behind. The Goal level, more challenging than the Proficient level, is the state target for student performance.

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