Windsor-Essex Catholic board bests provincial average in EQAO tests
Results from standardized provincial testing shows students from the Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board are performing better than their peers across the province in reading, writing and math.
Though the Catholic board exceeded the provincial standard, superintendent Emelda Byrne said the board wants to improve math scores.
"We're finding the gaps are in measurement, fractions and geometry," Byrne said. "They are the areas of concern, so we're going to put some strategies in place to work with our teachers and principals in that area."
Byrne said the elementary schools in the board will participate in a province-wide push to get math scores up.
Across the province, half of all Grade 6 students met the provincial standards. For the Catholic board in Windsor-Essex, that number was slightly better, with 55 per cent passing the Grade 6 math test.
"Just like with the concerted effort with parents reading to the children in the primary grades, it's going to take another concerted effort to work with our parents in math skills," Byrne said. "It's going to take us time, but I do believe we'll show improvement."