Dear St. Serra Catholic Parents,
At St. Serra Catholic School, we continually gather and analyze student performance data to make informed decisions about instruction, curriculum, and resources. Some of that data comes from the Renaissance STAR tests that students take three times per year.
Recently, the Diocese of Orange shared some data from the January 2021 administration of the STAR tests that is very encouraging.
As shared with you in the June 13, 2021, edition of the St. Serra Sunday News, last school year Renaissance Learning released data indicating that Catholic/Private school students had higher Student Growth Percentile scores than their public school counterparts on STAR tests administered in the winter of the 2020/2021 school year. Recently, the Diocese of Orange shared information about how it compared to other Catholic schools.
The data from the diocese indicates that Catholic schools in California reported average Percentile Rank scores that were higher than the national average Percentile Rank scores reported by Catholic schools. The average Percentile Rank scores reported by the Diocese of Orange were higher than the average Percentile Rank scores of Catholic schools in California. This was true at all grade levels (Grades 1-8) and for both math and reading.
What is really exciting, though, is the fact that St. Serra Catholic School students scored as high or higher than the average diocesan scores in both math and reading.
We are very proud of our students’ performance, and we are encouraged by this data to continue to regularly assess students--both formally and informally--and to use the information garnered from assessments to guide instructional decisions.
Our first official Renaissance STAR test window is September 13-24. The teachers and administrators here look forward to gathering information that will help us best serve our students.
Always Striving,
Tim Tolzda
Sr. Principal
