Catholic Education SA congratulates 16 of its schools who are represented in the Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority’s (ACARA), My School website, as schools demonstrating substantially above average gains in NAPLAN from 2013 to 2015.
These schools are St Barbara’s, Roxby Downs (Numeracy), St Francis Xavier’s Regional School, Wynn Vale (Numeracy), St Joseph’s School Hindmarsh (Reading), St Thomas Goodwood (Numeracy), St Michael’s College (Numeracy), St Pius X, Windsor Gardens (Numeracy), Our Lady Queen of Peace, Albert Park (Reading), Our Lady’s Memorial, Glenelg (Reading and Numeracy), St Therese School, Colonel Light Gardens (Numeracy), St Joseph’s, Clare (Reading and Numeracy), Sacred Heart College (Reading and Numeracy), St Margaret Mary’s School, Croydon Park (Reading and Numeracy), St Patrick’s School, Mansfield Park (Numeracy), St Catherine’s School, Stirling (Numeracy), Christ the King School, Warradale (Reading) and St Mary’s College Adelaide (Reading).
Schools identified with above average gain have demonstrated substantial improvement in reading, numeracy, or both, as follows:
• an overall gain that exceeds the national average by more than one standard deviation unit; and
• an overall gain higher than the average shown by schools with similar students based on the Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage ICSEA, by more than one standard deviation unit; and
• an overall gain higher than that shown by students with the same starting score, also by more than one standard deviation unit.
Congratulations to the students and teachers on these achievement.
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