The Georgia Department of Education

has released its Georgia Public Education Report Cards for the 2000-01

school year, and Fayette County's test scores outpace the overall state

results in every category.

The Report Cards include Stanford

9 tests in grades three, five and eight; Criterion-Referenced Competency

Tests in grades four, six and eight; and writing assessments in grades

five and eight.

Stanford 9 results are in five

academic categories reading, total mathematics, language, science and

social science along with the complete battery results. Statewide results

ranged from 42 to 47 percent among third-graders, but Fayette County scores

were between 64 and 69 percent.

The results in fifth and eighth

grades were more of the same. Statewide scores for fifth-graders averaged

48 to 51 percent, compared with 67 to 76 percent for Fayette. Eighth-graders

statewide averaged 42 to 53 percent, but Fayette's results were in the

67-72 range.

CRCT results are rated according

to specified target levels of achievement. Each student is rated as "does

not meet," "meets," or "exceeds" in reading,

language arts and mathematics.

The percentage of Fayette students

in the "exceeds" category is consistently 15 to 20 points higher

than the statewide percentage in all grades. As could be expected from

those numbers, the percentage in the "does not meet" category

is less in Fayette than the entire state by roughly the same margin.

Complete information on the

Report Cards, for Georgia overall and every school system in the state,

can be found at www.gadoe.org .

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