District Information

2007 Writing Scores are Super!

Hemingford Leads the Panhandle

by staff

August 23, 2007

Hemingford Public Schools leads the Nebraska Panhandle - and much of the state in 2007 writing results announced this week. Students in three grades were tested, fourth, eighth, and eleventh.

2007 Nebraska State School Assessments
Panhandle Schools
="Information taken from The Nebraska State Department of Education Web Page ">Information taken from The Nebraska State Department of Education Web Page
24-Aug-07
The numbers listed indicate the percentage of students meeting or exceeding state standards.

WRITING SCORES
School	Grade 4	Grade 8	Grade 11	Overall
Hemingford	95.65	96.55	100	97.40
Morrill	96.88	93.62	93.1	94.53
Mitchell	84.44	95.45	98.21	92.70
Gering	92.02	90.15	91.04	91.07
Gordon/Rushville	98.04	81.82	93.33	91.06
Chadron	85.71	96.92	90.16	90.93
Garden County	80	100	92.59	90.86
Hay Springs	94.12	100	77.78	90.63
State Average	86.15	90.15	91.04	89.11
Scottsbluff	83.05	87.94	92.47	87.82
Bayard	75.76	91.18	94.29	87.08
Bridgeport	88.37	77.14	90.91	85.47
Alliance	86.27	76.85	92.36	85.16
Crawford	70	90.91	73.08	78.00
Kimball	55.88	84.09	80.39	73.45

(Schools are listed in order of overall average of writing scores from all three grades)

Just a note of congratulations to our students, our parents, and our teachers for the great success our students had in our most recent writing test results! Keep up the solid efforts in your writing, and redouble your efforts in other areas as well! Thank you to Mr. Foster and Mrs. Thayer for their continued good work in assessment!

Mr. Ningen