The Colorado Department of Education released the unofficial 2014 preliminary TCAP reading test results, Thursday, May 8.
In Jefferson County, the board of education has set a strategic goal to increase the amount of proficient to advanced third-grade readers from 80 -85 percent by 2015. According the CDE, the results state 5,943 students tested, showing 78.8 percent or 4,683 third graders are testing at a proficient or advanced level, with 8 percent being advanced. The percentage of proficient students was down 0.6 percent from the 79.5 percent 2013 test results.
Statewide, 63,671 third-graders took the TCAP reading test, with 71.5 percent faring proficient and advanced in the test.
Official results for all TCAP tests will be posted in early August.
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