Catholic Board Celebrates Test Results

The Northwest Catholic District School Board is celebrating the latest results from provincial testing of its grade three, six and nine students.

Students at all of its schools who wrote the EQAO tests either met or exceeding the provincial standards in several areas.

Education Director Mary-Catherine Kelly says the results also show improved by grade six students from the time they wrote the test in grade three.

"We set very high expectations for the students," says Kelly. "We're using guided instruction to help. We've got good feedback to the students around their scores. We have excellent release time programs where the teachers get to work on their techniques and strategies to really focus instruction. So those have made really great improvements for us."

Kelly says the test scores also help the board in the development of improvement plans for students.