Mt. Hebron School Misses Academic Targets, Says State
The school's growth performance ranked in the lower third in both language arts and math when compared to schools in its peer group and all schools statewide.
Mt. Hebron Middle School fell short of its academic achievement targets last year and student growth in language arts and math was found to be lagging behind most schools in the state, according to a recent report. The New Jersey Department of Education’s “School Performance Reports" found Mt. Hebron's 548 students in sixth through eighth grade in 2011-12 who took the state standardized test New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge were 73 percent proficient in both language arts and math, which was below the school's goals of 76.7 and 77.7 percent, respectively. While students schoolwide missed the state benchmark for proficiency, the only group in the school that actually missed its proficiency targets was black students. All …
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11:38 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
"...the only group in the school that actually missed its proficiency targets was black students. All other groups of students measured — white, Hispanic, Asian, students with disabilities and the economically disadvantaged — met their academic targets. Black students at Mt. Hebron were 56.7 percent proficient in language arts, below the goal of 64 percent, and 55.1 percent proficient in math, … more ›