First Academy Headmaster Douglas Wasden reports the school has received its 2014-2015 data from the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) assessment that the third and fourth grade students took at the end of April.
Students scored at or above the national norm percentile in every subject area. Each subject area was at least 60% or higher for every content. The overall scores for each subject area are made up of six to eight different domains that are calculated to the overall percentage for each subject. In most domains and overall percentiles, First Academy scored 10-15% higher than the national percentile.
“First Academy has been able to excel academically because of excellent teachers, strong curriculum, dedicated parents, and hard-working students,” Wasden stated. “Overall, First Academy acknowledges that God is the center of all their successes.”
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