Prairie Land Regional Division (PLRD) has cause to celebrate after their provincial exam results made a significant increase over the previous year.
Prairie Land Regional Division showed considerable improvement in both its provincial test and accountability results. Overall, the school division saw a five per cent increase in test results over the previous year.
The results were presented at the October 9 meeting of the PLRD board. Overall, the results showed a five per cent increase over last year.
PLRD students achievement at the acceptable standard exceeded the provincial average in all subjects, except in Grade 9 Social Studies. PLRD’s participation rate also exceeded the provincial average.
In the diploma exams, PLRD students achieved equal or higher than the province at the acceptable standard in Biology 30, English 30-1, English 30-2, Physics 30, Social 30-1, and Social 30-2. PLRD has pledged to focus on improving student achievement in Chemistry and Math, and in all subjects at the standard of excellence.
PLRD also saw an increase in its accountability pillar results. PLRD received a rating of excellence in safe and caring schools, compared to an acceptable rating last year.
In student learning opportunities, PLRD went from being rated an issue to acceptable. Student learning Grade K-9 remained stable with a rating of good.
Grades 10 - 12 learning achievements went from being rated an issue to good.
Preparation for life-long learning remained at a rating of good.
Parent involvement improved dramatically, going from being rated an issue to excellent. Continuous improvement went from being a concern to acceptable.