Local school boards appraising EQAO results

The Kenora Catholic District School Board says it’s pleased with the most recent province-wide test result.

The provincial government has release information from the Education Quality and Accountability Office.

Director of Education Jamey Robertson says overall, students did quite well.

“We saw increases in five of eight areas,” Robertson points out.

“We remain stable in a few areas as well. We continued to see some good strength in literacy and some notable gains in grade 6 in that regard.”

Robertson says math remains a focus for them and an area of improvement in the most recent EQAO test results.

Over at the Keewatin-Patricia District School Board, they also saw some positive results.

Christy Radbourne is the Director of Education and says their work in math in particular is paying off.

“We have seen as much as an 11 percent increase in our grade 9 mathematics. We’ve seen up to a 17 percent increase over the last two years in grade 3 and another significant, 9 percent increase in our grade 6 scores.”

The EQAO results were released earlier this month, a delay of several months, as they are usually released earlier in the fall.