The Selma City School Board (SCBOE) received an update of the Scantron Performance testing data at the board’s meeting Tuesday night.

“As we look at this data we recognize we have much work to be done but we are moving in the right direction,” said Selma City School System Superintendent Dr. Avis Williams. “There’s room for growth but improvement is being made.”

There are four quartiles that the students can fall into for each subject tested.

Above Average or Quartile 4 and Average High or Quartile 3 are the places where the school system wants to score at. Quartile 2 and Quartile 1 are the average low and below average quartiles respectively.

“Our focus is on proficiency,” Williams told the board. “We want our students to be working at grade level.”

The scores were broken down by schools.

In the Reading Foundation Winter percentage of proficient students, Cedar Park Elementary had 39 percent of students scoring in Quartile 4 (14 percent) and Quartile 3 (25 percent).

Clark Elementary had 32 percent of students scoring in the proficient quartiles with 14 percent in Quartile 4 and 18 percent in Quartile 3.

Edgewood Elementary had the highest proficient student score of 56 percent with 28 percent of students in both Quartile 4 and Quartile 3.

Knox Elementary 48 percent of their students score in the proficiency quartiles with 16 percent in Quartile 4 and 32 percent in Quartile 3.

Meadowview had 45 percent of students score proficiently with 17 percent in Quartile 4 and 28 percent in Quartile 3.

Payne Elementary had 52 percent of students score proficiently with 22 percent in Quartile 4 and 30 percent in Quartile 3.

Kingston Elementary had 32 percent of their students score proficiently with 16 percent in both Quartiles.

Compared to the last testing period in the fall for reading, slight gains were made across the board for all schools in Mean Scale Scores.

Cedar Park gained 159 points, Clark gained 69 points, Edgewood gained 67 points, Knox gained 61, Meadowview gained 91, Payne gained 113, School of Discovery gained 90, R.B. Hudson Middle School gained 21 points and Selma High School gained 52 points.

In mathematics testing, a slight increase in students scoring in Quartile 4 was shown at a 1 percent gain and Quartile 3 remained consistent with 19 percent of the district scoring in average high.

Cedar Park had 20 percent of students score proficiently in math with 5 percent in Quartile 4 and 15 percent in Quartile 3.

Clark had 6 percent in Quartile 4 and 17 percent in Quartile 3 for a total of 23 percent.

Edgewood had 39 percent of students score proficiently with 16 percent in Quartile 4 and 23 percent in Quartile 3.

Knox had 33 percent of total students score proficiently with 11 percent in Quartile 4 and 20 percent in Quartile 3.

Meadowview had 50 percent of the total students score proficiently with 18 percent in Quartile 4 and 32 percent in Quartile 3.

Payne had 40 percent score proficiently with 12 percent in Quartile 4 and 25 percent in Quartile 3.

Kingston had 21 percent of the total students score proficiently with 5 percent in Quartile 4 and 16 percent in Quartile 3.

School of Discovery had 25 percent of the total students score proficiently with 4 percent in Quartile 4 and 21 percent in Quartile 3.

R.B. Hudson had 8 percent of the students score proficiently with 1 percent in Quartile 4 and 7 percent in Quartile 3.

Selma High School had no students score proficiently in mathematics with 20 percent scoring in Quartile 2 (Average Low) and 80 percent in Quartile 1 (Below Average).

Williams presented some goals to help improve the scoring for the next time.

By the Spring 2019 semester, Williams said she hopes to improve the academic performance of all students in reading and mathematics at least one proficiency level and quartile based on fall assessment results.

She also hopes to decrease the percentage of students scoring in average low and below average by 10 percent in reading in mathematics on state assessments based on the fall assessment results.

Williams said the instructional priorities include strategic teaching instruction, standardized-instruction, purposeful lesson planning, tiered instruction and intervention and formative assessment strategies.