Results of the California High School Exit Exam show scores are
slipping at Live Oak High School and Central Continuation High
School. Scores remain strong at Ann Sobrato High School, which
surpassed county and state averages.
Results of the California High School Exit Exam show scores are slipping at Live Oak High School and Central Continuation High School. Scores remain strong at Ann Sobrato High School, which surpassed county and state averages.
Overall, 82 percent of Morgan Hill Unified School District’s 725 sophomores passed the math portion of the exit exam last year. Eighty-one percent of them passed the English portion, according to results released by the California Department of Education today.
On average, 86 percent of Santa Clara County sophomores passed math and 83 percent passed English, according to the data. On average statewide, 79 percent of sophomores passed the English exam in 2009 and 80 percent passed math.
Earning a diploma and participating in graduation hinges on a student’s passage of this test. Sophomores who don’t pass one or both sections have another chance as juniors. Seniors have five chances to pass it.
Eighty-nine percent of Sobrato’s 386 tenth grade students passed the math portion of the exit exam, up 2 percentage points over last year. And 87 percent passed the English language arts portion, down 3 percentage points over last year.
Across town at Live Oak, the passage rate slipped 2 percentage points to 79 percent of the school’s 316 sophomores passing English. The percent of students passing math slipped 3 percentage points to 76 percent.
Central Continuation High School’s 22 sophomores had a passage rate of 68 percent in English and 41 percent in math.
Sobrato’s subgroups outperformed Live Oak’s subgroups in almost every category. For example, 75 percent of Sobrato’s 68 socio-economically disadvantaged test takers passed the math portion of the exam, while just 55 percent of Live Oak’s 119 disadvantaged test takers passed. For the same group, 67 percent passed English at Sobrato but just 55 percent passed English at Live Oak. Sobrato’s special education students outpaced their Live Oak peers, too, with 50 percent of the 30 students passing the math portion and 47 percent of them passing English. 41 percent of Live Oak’s 32 special education students passed the math portion and 34 percent of them passed the English portion.
