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3 | Thursday S ep tem b e r 2 8 , 2 0 1 7 | OAKVILLE BEAVER | w w w .insidehalton.com Halton Catholic EQAO results down over previous year by Kathy Yanchus M etroland W est M edia There has been a marked turnaround from last year's positive EQAO results for students of the Halton Catholic District School Board. Although results indicate that HCDSB students remain above the provincial average in the core subjects of reading, writing and mathematics, there were notable drops in each subject. In fact, in all areas tested, there was only one area where student results were actually up from the 2 0 1 5 /2 0 1 6 school year and that was in Grade 9 applied math. Last year, 55 per cent of Grade 9 students were at or exceeded the provincial average, and this year that number rose slightly to 5 7 per cent. Students who m et or exceeded the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) provincial average in Grade 3 reading dropped two per cent to 85 per cent; in writing, 8 4 per cent of students met or exceeded the provincial average compared to 91 per cent in 2 0 1 5 /2 0 1 6 and in Grade 3 math, the numbers were 75 per cent versus 79 per cent the previous year. The decrease in overall EQAO performance in Grade 6 was also noteworthy. Writing scores were down to 8 6 per cent of students meeting or exceeding the provincial average as compared to 9 2 per cent in the 2 0 1 5 /2 0 1 6 school year. Results in Grade 6 reading testing were down three per cent from last year at 8 7 per cent, and in math Grade 6 students fared as well as they did last year at 6 4 per cent. In 2 0 1 4 /2 0 1 5 that number was 7 4 per cent. At the high school level, Grade 9 academic math students scored lower in EQAO testing than they did during the previous school year with 85 per cent of students meeting or exceeding the provincial average as compared to 89 per cent. Results indicated a three per cent drop in the results of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test results, from 86 per cent in 2015/2016, to 83 per cent in the 2016/2017 school year. "As a school district, we know that there is more work to be done. 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