Riverside-Brookfield High School’s 2023 graduating class has more students than last year’s graduating class, according to performance data presented by administrators at the Oct. 10 Riverside-Brookfield Township High School District 208 School Board meeting. met the College Board’s academic readiness standards.
More than three-quarters of the members of the Class of 2023, who entered the high school as freshmen at RBHS, achieved scores of 480 or higher on the evidence-based reading and writing portion of the SAT, which the College Board considers a standard for college admission. This is a slight increase from her 71% of students who met or exceeded the criteria last year. This is consistent with the results of 75% of seniors in 2021 and 76% in 2020.
In math, 59% of RBHS seniors who entered RBHS as freshmen scored 530 or above on the math portion of last year’s SAT, the College Board’s math readiness standard. This was up from 50% of students in 2022 and two points higher than in 2021. However, 63% of students performed worse than expected in 2020, when they tested more than expected.
School board member Laura Hruska pointed out that the data only covers about 75% of the upperclassmen class because it excludes students who transferred to RBHS. She said Hruska said it was misleading data.
“We don’t know the exact situation,” Hruska said.
Vice Principal for Curriculum and Instruction Kylie Lindquist said this data includes transfer students because officials are trying to measure the effectiveness of instruction at RBHS and want to measure the learning gains of students who have spent their entire high school career at RBHS. It was explained that it was not included. Hruska’s persistent insistence that the data was incomplete ultimately made board member Ryan Venhorst a little angry.
“They knew exactly what we were looking for,” VenHorst says.
According to the data, 29% of members of the Class of 2023 met their expected growth goals, which is how much a student’s score improved from their STAR test results taken in 8th grade at ERW. The student’s enrollment indicated that he or she was not college ready. High school is below expectations. This is a small increase from 2022 (26%), but a significant increase from 2021 and 2020 (14% in both years).
In mathematics, 35% of students achieved expected levels of growth but did not meet college readiness standards. These numbers are up from 25% in 2022, 29% in 2021, and 22% in 2020, indicating that RBHS is doing a better job with below-grade students.
The report includes adding reading intervention for first and second graders, reading and writing support for co-ed classes, algebra support for eligible freshmen, and pulling students from other eligible classes for additional English instruction. , outlined the action steps taken at RBHS to improve student achievement. We also provide math support for students who enter RBHS with below benchmark scores. RBHS also currently offers a free Her SAT test prep class for students who scored below the cut-off mark on the Her PSAT test taken during their sophomore year.
In terms of graduation rates, data showed that nearly 97% of students who just completed their first year at RBHS plan to graduate within four years. The state considers a freshman to be on track if she completes her freshman year without failing more than one semester in a core class. This number is a slight increase from the previous year.
However, board member Lorena Gasca downplayed the importance of freshmen in track and field, pointing out that even if a student gets all D’s as a freshman, that student can still compete in track and field.
“It’s naive to think that being on track means they’re college or career ready,” Gasca said.
