Testing and Accountability

New Hanover County Schools (650)

2022–23

Read to Achieve Grades 1 and 2 End-of-Year (EOY) Results

G.S. §115C-83.10 requires "each local board of education to publish annually on a website maintained by that local school administrative unit and report in writing to the State Board of Education (SBE) by September 1 of each year the following information on the prior school year:" 

Total Number of Students in EOY DIBELS 8 (denominator)

Number of Students 

Percentage of Students 

The denominator for calculating the required percentages for rows 1-4 is all students in membership at grades 1 and 2 for EOY DIBELS 8.

1

The number and percentage of first-grade students demonstrating reading comprehension at grade level. 

1878

1323

70.4%

2

The number and percentage of first-grade students not demonstrating reading comprehension at grade level and eligible for priority enrollment in reading camp.

555

29.6%

3

The number and percentage of second-grade students demonstrating reading comprehension at grade level. 

1791

1179

65.8%

4

The number and percentage of second-grade students not demonstrating reading comprehension at grade level and eligible for priority enrollment in reading camp.

612

34.2%

The denominator for row 5 is the number of students eligible for priority enrollment in reading camp from row 2. 

5

The number and percentage of first-grade students eligible for priority enrollment who attended reading camp. 

*

*

The denominator for row 6 is the number of students eligible for priority enrollment in reading camp from row 4. 

6

The number and percentage of second-grade students eligible for priority enrollment who attended reading camp. 

239

39.1%

New Hanover County Schools (650)
2022–23 

Read to Achieve Grade 3 End-of-Year (EOY) Results 

G.S. §115C-83.10 requires "each local board of education to publish annually on a website maintained by that local school administrative unit and report in writing to the State Board of Education (SBE) by September 1 of each year the following information on the prior school year:" 

Number of Students 

Percentage of Students 

The denominator for calculating the required percentages for rows 1 and 2 is all students in membership at grade 3 for the first day of spring testing. The denominator for the state is 1837. 

1

Demonstrated reading proficiency on the Beginning-of-Grade 3 (BOG3) Reading Test, the End-of-Grade (EOG) Reading Test, or the EOG Reading Retest (i.e., scored level 3 or higher). 

981

53.4%

2

Did not demonstrate reading proficiency on the BOG3 Reading Test, the EOG Reading Test, or the EOG Reading Retest 

856

46.6%

The number and percentage of students exempt from mandatory retention in third grade by category of good cause. Students may be counted in only one of these categories. Denominator for each category in row 3 is row 2. 

3

a.       Students who took and passed an alternative assessment approved by the SBE (i.e., State-

        approved formative and diagnostic assessment system (mCLASS DIBELS 8), Read to

        Achieve Test, or locally determined SBE-approved alternative assessment). 

274

32.0%

b.       English Learner [EL]students with less than two school years of instruction in an English  

        as a Second Language [ESL] program. 

*

<5%

c.       Students with disabilities whose current Individualized Education Program (IEP)  

        indicates the use of the NCEXTEND1 alternative assessment, have at least a two school-

        year delay in educational performance, or have received intensive reading interventions

        for at least two school years. 

155

18.1%

d.       Students who have been previously retained more than once in kindergarten, first,  

        second, or third grades. 

*

*

e.       Students who demonstrated reading proficiency appropriate for third-grade students  

        through a RtA Reading Portfolio. 

*

*

New Hanover County Schools (650)
2022–23 

Read to Achieve Grade 3 End-of-Year (EOY) Results 

G.S. §115C-83.10 requires "each local board of education to publish annually on a website maintained by that local school administrative unit and report in writing to the State Board of Education (SBE) by September 1 of each year the following information on the prior school year:" 

Number of Students 

Percentage of Students 

The denominator for calculating the required percentages for rows 4 and 6 are all students in membership at grade 3 for the first day of spring testing. The denominator for the state is 1837. 

4

The number and percent of students eligible for priority enrollment in reading camp. This number equals row 2 minus the total of rows 3a through 3e. 

394

21.4%

The denominator for row 5 is the number of students eligible for priority enrollment in reading camp from row 4. 

5

The number and percentage of students eligible for priority enrollment who attended reading camp. 

161

40.9%

6

Total number and percentage of students retained for not demonstrating reading proficiency on third-grade standards (students deemed proficient after reading camp are subtracted from this number). Students who are not proficient will be either: [1] retained in a third-grade class, [2] placed in a transitional third and fourth grade class combination, or [3] placed in a fourth-grade accelerated class with a retained reading label. 

360

19.6%

7

Charter Schools Only. Charter schools must indicate the number and percentage of retained students recorded in number 6 who do not return to the charter school for the upcoming school year. 

N/A

N/A

Alternative Assessments

Number of Students Who Passed the Alternative Assessment¹

1 

SBE-Approved alternative assessment for districts (if approved for use in 2022-23)

N/A

2 

Acadience Reading

N/A

3 

Achieve3000

N/A

4 

AIMSweb

N/A

5 

American Reading Company

N/A

6 

College Teacher Press

N/A

7 

Columbia Teachers College

N/A

8 

Easy CBM

N/A

9 

Edmentum—Exact Path Individualize Learning Solution

N/A

10 

eSpark Learning

N/A

11 

FastBridge—FastBridge aReading

N/A

12 

Fountas and Pinnell Reading Program

N/A

13 

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—Reading Inventory

N/A

14 

Imagination Station—Istation’s Indicators of Progress (ISIP^TM) Reading³ 

N/A

15 

Imagine Learning—Galileo English Language Arts/Reading Assessment 

N/A

16

Imagine Learning—Reading Level Assessment 

N/A

17

Instructure—CASE Benchmark Assessment

N/A

18

Iowa Assessments  

N/A

19

i-Ready

N/A

20

Lexia Learning—RAPID Assessment 

N/A

21

mClass

N/A

22

Moby Maz

N/A

23

Northwest Evaluation System (NWEA)—Measures of Academic Progress Growth

N/A

24

Raz+

N/A

26

STAR Reading

N/A

27

STEP Assessment

N/A

28

Approved school-created term assessment

N/A