SUMMARY: Every Hoboken charter school scored above the state average in 2016 Grade 3 PARCC Language Arts and in Grade 3 PARCC Mathematics; Every Hoboken charter school scored above every Hoboken Traditional Public School on 2016 in Grade 3 PARCC Language Arts and in Grade 3 PARCC Mathematics exam.
Grade 3 was also selected because these students in the traditional Hoboken Public Schools have been under the full stewardship of the Kids First/Forward Progress/Reach Higher Board (recall, this group gained full majority of the Board of Education in May of 2009). The students tested were infants and toddlers when Kids First/Forward Progress took control of the Hoboken Board of Education. So, it is both fair and reasonable to say that these students have been exposed to nothing educationally other than what the Kids First/Forward Progress board approved and funded (curriculum, staff, instructional resources, school configuration, etc..,).
A quick summary for new readers:
Calabro- Traditional Public School
Connors- Traditional Public School
Elysian- Charter School
Hoboken Charter- Charter School
Hola- Charter School
Wallace- Traditional Public School
Here is the raw data presented as mean scale scores by the New Jersey department of Education for the 2016 PARCC Grade 3 Language Arts for all charter and traditional public schools in the City of Hoboken. State average mean scale score for Grade 3 Language Arts is 746.
| School | Mean SS |
| Hola | 772 |
| Calabro | 741 |
| Connors | 736 |
| Wallace | 760 |
| Hob. Chart | 773 |
| Elysian | 771 |
Here is the raw data presented as mean scale scores by the New Jersey department of Education for the 2016 PARCC Grade 3 Mathematics for all charter and traditional public schools in the City of Hoboken. State average mean scale score for Grade 3 Mathematics is 750.
| School | Mean SS |
| Hola | 770 |
| Calabro | 726 |
| Connors | 739 |
| Wallace | 757 |
| Hob. Chart | 765 |
| Elysian | 763 |
* Every Hoboken charter school scored above the state average for 2016 Grade 3 PARCC Language Arts and for Grade 3 PARCC Mathematics.
* Every Hoboken charter school scored higher than any Hoboken Traditional Public School on 2016 Grade 3 PARCC Language Arts and on Grade 3 PARCC Mathematics exam.
* Wallace School scored above the Hoboken Schools trend line for Grade 3 PARCC Mathematics.
Sometimes to get a better understanding of data it is best to display the data in a chart or graphically. When we plot the mean scale scores in Grade 3 Mathematics and in Grade 3 Language Arts and use a trend line to statistically divide the population into schools above and below the trend line we see a definite pattern emerge. Think of data points above the trend line as "above the population trend" and data points below the trend line as "below the population trend" when the population include the children being educated in Hoboken by both the traditional and charter public schools. For example, in the 2016 PARCC Grade 3 Language Arts chart below we can plainly see Hoboken Charter above the trend line, Wallace School slightly below the population trend, and Calabro below the trend line.
2016 Grade 3 PARCC Language Arts All Hoboken Schools
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| Figure 1: 2016 PARCC Grade 3 Language Arts CLICK TO ENLARGE |
2016 Grade 3 PARCC Mathematics All Hoboken Schools
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| Figure 2: 2016 PARCC Grade 3 Mathematics CLICK TO ENLARGE |
Soon we will take a look at some other grades in a similar fashion to see whether the Grade 3 score distributions are the norm or not. Here is some preliminary data on the 2016 5th Grade Language Arts Results (NJ state average mean scale score = 751) where we see similar distributions.
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