STATEN ISLAND — Math and English Language Arts skills improved in Staten Island over the past year with even the borough's lowest performing schools having more students pass tests, data shows.
Borough-wide, 44.4 percent of students were deemed proficient in ELA this year, an 18 percent increase from the 37.6 percent last year. In math, 40.2 percent passed, a 2.6 percent increase from 2015, according to the city's test scores.
The upward trend mirrors the rest of the city which saw big gains in the 2016 math and ELA state test scores.
P.S. 35 The Clove Valley School in Grymes Hill had the highest ELA scores out of the 57 schools in District 31 with 79 percent of students dubbed proficient, an increase from 61 percent in 2015, according to the data.
The school also scored second in math in the borough with 75.1 percent passing the exams, an increase from the 71 percent last year.
In the South Shore, P.S. 5 in Huguenot had the highest percentage of students proficient in math with 78 percent passing, up from 71 last year, according to the data.
P.S. 5 had the second highest ELA scores in the district, with 76.8 percent passing.
While some schools which had the lowest scores in the borough had decreased math scores, most of them still saw increases in students passing the ELA exams, data shows.
P.S. 31 in St. George had the lowest rate of students who passed the ELA exams in the borough but it was still a 16 percent increase from last year, from 8.7 to 10.1 percent, according to the data.
The school with the second lowest ELA scores, P.S. 44 in Mariners Harbor, had 10.2 percent of students pass the exams, an increase from the 9.4 percent in 2015, data shows.
I.S. 49 in West Brighton, the school with the lowest math scores in the borough, ranked 52nd of 57 schools in ELA scores with 19.8 percent passing this year, up from the 16.8 percent in 2015.
In math, 6.9 percent of I.S. 49 students passed, a decrease from the 10.7 percent who passed last year, according to the data.
To see how your child's Staten Island school fared on the ELA and math exams in 2016, check out DNAinfo's map:
