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Huron Expositor, 2009-06-24, Page 29.-4 u40_._404.4 News ,4t WrJ# 4 ioirr_ogx, to -UN ,i1T 8t *WO The Huron Expositor • June 24, 2009 Page 29 4) Berth Grade 10 students earnhi scores in province on literacy tests Stew Slater This year's Grade 10 students in Huron and Perth Counties had a higher -than -normal bar to strive for as they completed their Ontario Sec- ondary -School Literacy.Test (OSSLT) in April, 2009. And, according to recently -released results from the agency which ad- ministers the standardized test, the Education Quality and Accountabil- ity Office (EQAO), they were up to the challenge. For the second year in a row, suc- cess rates among students from the Huron -Perth Catholic District School Board were the highest in the _ prov- ince,' with 92 per cent achieving at or above the EQAO standard. That's a one -point improvement over last year. Students from Catho- lic school , systems in Kingston and Halton region shared the - top spot among English boards.:� s Students from the co -terminous Avon Maitland District School Board, meanwhile, improved by two per- centage points on the results of last year's Grade 10s.• Their success rate was 88. per cent, compared to 86 per cent last year. . Province -wide, the average success rate was 84 per cent in 2008, and in-- creasecrto 85 per cenfthis year. According to a news release from the Huron -Perth board, administra- tors remain. "committed to improved performance." And, Perth South/Stratford trustee Bernard Murray, after learning of the results, said, "it speaks to what our teachers are doing to raise their skills so they can help our students." In publicizing their results, each board chose to highlight a particular trend. The Catholic board stressed its ability to lessen the effects of the so-called "gender gap" that saw just 82 per cent of males across the prov- ince achieve the EQAO standard. In Stratford St. Mikes and Clinton St. Anne's high schools, 88 per cent of males met the standard. The Avon Maitland board, mean- , while, looked back in . its records to 2004-05, when the group of students writing this year's OSSLT sat down for their previous EQAO literacy test the Grade 6 assessments of read- ing, writing and math. "Of the 1,059 students who wrote the Grade -6 EQAO in Avon Maitland in 2004-2005, 937 students were suc- cessful on the OSSLT, including over 200 students who were not at provin- cial standards in reading in 2004-0.5. To be eligible for a secondary school diploma, students. must either pass th� OSSLT or complete a literacy course that's specially designed for those who repeatedly fail to succeed. 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