ACADEMICS

Academic Achievements and Test Scores

Our students score above national norms in all areas of standardized testing.

Each year at St. Giles School students in grades 3-7 take the Terra Nova Standardized Test. The 2010 test results demonstrated that St. Giles students scored in the highest quartile in all curriculum content areas.

The main purpose for using a standardized testing program is to provide our school and teaching staff with specific grade analysis of curriculum strengths and weaknesses and to improve and adjust teaching strategies to meet grade-specific needs.

The Terra Nova results indicate student performance and mastery of specific curriculum content objectives as compared to students of like ages and grade levels across the nation in both the private and public school sectors.

Standardized tests are a good indicator of student performance but certainly are not the only means of student assessment used at St. Giles School. At St. Giles School each child is viewed as a total student within a nurturing yet challenging academic environment.

St. Giles National Percentage Scores – 2011
(For each subject area the grade group scored at or above the national percentage indicated)

	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5	Grade 6	Grade 7
Reading	84	82	84	87	88
Language	87	84	86	89	92
Math	89	88	83	89	89
Science	84	84	84	85	81
Social Studies	90	88	82	89	88

Although direct comparisons can’t be made between Illinois ISAT assessments and the Terra Nova, the benchmark for NCLB is percent of students above the 50% mark.

St. Giles percentage above 50% – 2011
(based on Median National Percentile)

	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5	Grade 6	Grade 7
Reading	90	90.3	96.7	91.5	97.7
Language	88	93.6	92.8	93.4	97.7
Math	92	90.3	87.8	93.4	97.7
Science	92	96.8	97.5	93.3	95.4
Soc. St.	96	100.0	97.5	95.6	100.0

Academic Achievements
St. Giles School is very proud of the academic achievements of its students over the past two years.

The Scholastic Bowl team placed second out of twenty-two teams in the Trinity Scholastic Bowl.

The Math Team took Third Place in the Fenwick Math Contest. They competed with 18 other area schools in their division. An eighth grader was honored for achieving Second Place in the individual competition. Two students were offered high school scholarship awards.

A seventh grade student advanced to the State competition of the Illinois Junior Academy of Science.

A student was awarded first place and third place in the Resurrection High School Writing Festival. Three others received monetary awards from Alderman William Banks for their essays on “How Your Government Works.”

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