Shrewsbury Borough School Scores High on Academic Achievement, Student Growth

Shrewsbury Borough School received high marks on academic achievement and student growth compared to the rest of the state and a representative peer group, according to data released by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) last week. The school's college and career readiness results fell in the middle of the road, 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. Shrewsbury Borough School's peers included Forrestdale in Rumson, Knollwood in Fair Haven and Monmouth Beach Elementary, among others.

Shrewsbury Borough School outperformed 93 percent of the state and 72 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 school-age children taking Algebra I,Shrewsbury Borough School ranked above 49 percent of the state and 49 percent of its peer group.

Shrewsbury Borough School outperformed 77 percent of the state and 60 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