FCAT SCORES RELEASED, M-DCPS SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SURGES

MIAMI– After numerous delays, the Florida Department of Education finally released student performance data from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), and the results for Miami-Dade County Public Schools are stellar.  The growth exhibited by M-DCPS students on FCAT Reading, Mathematics, and Writing tests exceeded that of the State at nearly every grade level.

For the first time, increases in the percentages of students’ scoring high in the District in Reading and Mathematics met or exceeded those across the state in all but Grade 9, resulting in performance that outpaced state averages five fold in Reading and doubling the state’s numbers in Mathematics.

The good news continues with extraordinary gains in the writing scores. Higher percentages of our 4th and 10th graders scored in the upper range on FCAT Writing (4.0 or above) than did their peers statewide. Finally, further confirmation that the teaching going on in Miami-Dade is making a difference and driving students to achieve as never before, this year higher percentages of our 10th grade students passed the FCAT Reading and Mathematics graduation tests on their first attempt at a rate more than twice that shown statewide.

“In the face of negative headlines like the oil spill off the Gulf Coast and the delayed FCAT results,” said Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho, “our Miami-Dade County Public Schools students, led by our teachers and administrators, have outperformed their counterparts across the State and delivered a number of firsts for our school district.”

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