Special Education Results in Corbett, 2010

Last year Corbett's students who qualified for Special Education passed the State Math Assessments at a rate that exceeded the State special education average by 27%.

Last year Corbett's students who qualified for Special Education passed the State Reading Assessments at a rate that exceeded the State special education average by 7.6%.

Last year Corbett's students who qualified for Special Education passed the State Science Assessments at a rate that exceeded the State special education average by 25%.

This is true in spite of the fact that Corbett identified far fewer students, meaning that the students who did qualify had more significant barriers to learning than does the average identified student around the state. But shouldn't that sort of screening have resulted in our general student scores dropping off?

Last year Corbett's Total Population passed the State Math Assessments at a rate that exceeded the State average by 5.6%. (The gap got considerably wider as students got older.)

Last year Corbett's Total Population passed the State Reading Assessments at a rate that exceeded the State average by 6.3%. (The gap got considerably wider as students got older.)

Last year Corbett's Total Population passed the State Science Assessments at a rate that exceeded the State average by 9.7%. (The gap got considerably wider as students got older.)

So who got left behind? Not the Special Education students. Not the general population of students? Makes one wonder who might be left...