Dothan City Schools

Testing Scores

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In 2007-8 in the 5th grade 44 percent of students met or exceeded academic content standards in grammar and usage. In the 10th grade 35.71 percent of children met or exceeded the academic content standards and only 6.41 exceeded the academic content standards in grammar and usage...which means that about 58 % of Dothan 10th graders did not meet the academic content standards in grammar and usage according to the Alabama Direct Assessment of Writing.  What is being taught instead?  Do they conjugate verbs, decline nouns, diagram sentences, learn spelling words and parts of speech?  Or do they work together in group on "projects"?

Since they have changed the SAT to the Sat-10, it is difficult to compare the data on reading now.  I actually could not find a discrete reading score on the Alabama State Department of Education website now in 2008.