Red Bank Middle School Performance Results a Mixed Bag

Red Bank Middle School fell behind most schools in the state but in line with peers on academic achievement and student growth, according to data released by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) last week. The district received a high performance rating on college and career readiness, however.

The state's new performance reports, which replace the school report cards issued in past years, rates schools on a variety of metrics. The performance report looks at a school's ranking compared to the rest of the state and to a peer group with a similar demographic. Red Bank Middle School's peers included West New York Middle School, Infinity Institute in Jersey City and Anna L. Klein School in Guttenberg, among others.

Red Bank Middle School outperformed 20 percent of the state and 47 percent of its peer group on academic achievement, which takes into account New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) results.

On the college and career readiness metric, which considers chronic absence results and the number of middle schoolers taking Algebra I, Red Bank Middle School ranked above 66 percent of the state and 65 percent of its peer group.

Red Bank Middle School outperformed 39 percent of the state and 50 percent of peers on the report's student growth metric, which measures NJ ASK scores from one year to the next.

Schools scoring above the 80th percentile are considered very high performing; the 60th to 79.9th percentile is high performing; the 40th to 59.9th percentile is average performing; the 20th to 39.9th percentile is lagging; and scores below the 19.9th percentile are considered significantly lagging, according the state's scoring metric.

To see how other schools in the area fared, click the link here: http://education.state.nj.us/pr/nav.php?c=25