The Education Quality and Accountability Office released school and board-wide results Wednesday for the 2009-2010 high school literacy tests.
Province-wide success rates remain steady, with an 84 per cent pass rate for students who wrote the test for the first time. Over the past five years the rate has hovered at 84 per cent, with a slight up-tick last school year, to 85 per cent. The results can be viewed online.
The Grade 10 students who took the test this school year will begin receiving their individual results next week.
"At EQAO, we believe in the power of good information," said Brian Desbiens, the Chair of EQAO's Board of Directors. "That is why our agency is proud to report the results of its assessments publicly each year and why we work so hard to help education professionals, parents and the public understand how to interpret and use the data to support learning."
A comprehensive report on the literacy results as well Grade 9 mathematics test results will be published in September by the EQAO, an arm's length government agency.