After United Independent School District released their STAAR results in a board meeting last night, LISD has now released their results.
In most categories, LISD has fallen far below the state averages of scores.
Freshman across Texas were faced with a new statewide STAAR test, a more rigorous exam than the TAKS.
But looking at the numbers from LISD, less than one-third of students met the satisfactory requirement to pass the test on the reading and writing portions.
(Dr. Marcus Nelson\LISD superintendent):"Well we are disappointed in the writing scores across the district. And we are really focused on coming up with a plan that is diagnostic and prescript to each school."
Unlike UISD, where officials said they want to focus on the curriculum as a whole and not just at one individual campus, LISD Superintendent Dr. Marcus Nelson said he wants to adjust to each school based on their needs and scores.
In English 1 writing, Nixon High School passed the most students, with only 28 percent passing.
Cigarroa passed 27 percent, while amongst Martin High School freshman, only 16 percent passed.
In the reading portion, numbers were similar.
Nixon passed 37 percent, while at Cigarroa, 30 percent met the satisfactory requirement.
Martin fell in last again, only 21 percent of their freshman passed and Dr. Nelson said this has been the pattern.
"Martin has historically, over the past few years, in any case, has struggled."
Scores were similar amongst the district in the other three categories...
In World Geography, 49 percent passed, in Biology the district passed 55 percent. Algebra was the districts best category, passing 61 percent of freshman.
Dr. Nelson said he wants to improve scores by starting with reading.
"As we focus on our reading scores...what we found is that schools that concentrate on reading, really see an increase in their scores throughout all the subject areas."
Engineer Carlos Mejia, who promotes the STEM program, which stands for science, technology, education and mathematics said a teacher told him schools are focused on just state-tests.
(Carlos V. Mejia\Laredo Engineer): "Right now the teachers are concentrating so much on teaching the students how to pass the required exam from the state. And that kind of takes the personal touch from the teacher to the student, where the student feels inspired.”
Dr. Nelson also said he feels teachers are frustrated that the new test was released at the same time millions of dollars were cut from the budgets.
"While the test has gotten more difficult, we've also raised class sizes, we've down sized our staff and it's just hard to expect what we expect from our staff when they are concerned about the resources they are being provided."
After United Independent School District released their STAAR results in a board meeting last night, LISD has now released their results.
In most categories, LISD has fallen far below the state averages of scores.
Freshman across Texas were faced with a new statewide STAAR test, a more rigorous exam than the TAKS.
But looking at the numbers from LISD, less than one-third of students met the satisfactory requirement to pass the test on the reading and writing portions.
(Dr. Marcus Nelson\LISD superintendent):"Well we are disappointed in the writing scores across the district. And we are really focused on coming up with a plan that is diagnostic and prescript to each school."
Unlike UISD, where officials said they want to focus on the curriculum as a whole and not just at one individual campus, LISD Superintendent Dr. Marcus Nelson said he wants to adjust to each school based on their needs and scores.
In English 1 writing, Nixon High School passed the most students, with only 28 percent passing.
Cigarroa passed 27 percent, while amongst Martin High School freshman, only 16 percent passed.
In the reading portion, numbers were similar.
Nixon passed 37 percent, while at Cigarroa, 30 percent met the satisfactory requirement.
Martin fell in last again, only 21 percent of their freshman passed and Dr. Nelson said this has been the pattern.
"Martin has historically, over the past few years, in any case, has struggled."
Scores were similar amongst the district in the other three categories...
In World Geography, 49 percent passed, in Biology the district passed 55 percent. Algebra was the districts best category, passing 61 percent of freshman.
Dr. Nelson said he wants to improve scores by starting with reading.
"As we focus on our reading scores...what we found is that schools that concentrate on reading, really see an increase in their scores throughout all the subject areas."
Engineer Carlos Mejia, who promotes the STEM program, which stands for science, technology, education and mathematics said a teacher told him schools are focused on just state-tests.
(Carlos V. Mejia\Laredo Engineer): "Right now the teachers are concentrating so much on teaching the students how to pass the required exam from the state. And that kind of takes the personal touch from the teacher to the student, where the student feels inspired.”
Dr. Nelson also said he feels teachers are frustrated that the new test was released at the same time millions of dollars were cut from the budgets.
"While the test has gotten more difficult, we've also raised class sizes, we've down sized our staff and it's just hard to expect what we expect from our staff when they are concerned about the resources they are being provided."
Dr. Nelson also adds that LISD is not anticipating any more lay-offs this year due to additional budget cuts.
Despite low scores on the STAAR test, early college program students did test above state averages in many subjects.
Both UISD and LISD fell below the state average in every category.
English 1 Writing was the toughest subject throughout the state.
UISD passes 48 percent, LISD passed only 26 percent while 55 percent of the students throughout the state passed.
English one reading was the next lowest average throughout Texas.
UISD passes 54 percent, LISD passed 32 percent, while 68 percent of students in Texas passed.
In World Geography, UISD passed 77 percent, LISD passed 49 percent while the state average was 81 percent.
Algebra was LISD's best subject, passing 61 percent, 77percent of freshman in UISD passed. The state passed 83 percent.
Biology was UISD’s best subject; 80 percent passed while 55 percent of LISD passed. In the state, 87 percent of student’s passed.