This year’s new state math and reading tests highlighted how far the city’s kids have to go to be deemed college-ready for their grade level.
But for a handful of schools, the road to better results is going to be even longer.
They include PS 194 in Harlem, where just 1 percent of students passed this year’s tougher math or reading tests. The perennially troubled school made the state’s list of “persistently dangerous” schools in both 2010 and 2011, and had 83 percent of students score a level 1 in reading this year.
Other schools struggling to prepare their kids for college or career include the Bronx’s Urban Science Academy – in math – and the Harbor Heights middle school, where nearly 90 percent of students scored at the bottom level in reading.
“The challenge of helping those students who are furthest behind make progress is the central challenge for us and for school districts,” State Education Commissioner John King said when asked about the significant number of kids who scored at the bottom.
Not surprisingly, the city’s selective or gifted and talented schools came out on top when it came to the percentage of kids who were deemed on track for post-diploma success.
Highly-coveted schools like The Anderson School in Manhattan – which scored second-best in both reading and math citywide – and IS 187 in Brooklyn, where 99 percent of middle schoolers aced the math test, led the charge.
Other top scorers were Baccalaureate School for Global Education in Queens, which led the city with a 95.6 percent passing rate in English, and the Upper East Side’s Lower Lab School — which ranked first in both subjects among elementary schools.