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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday, December 23, 1998 Page 19 n wmsH ft TheAlpine School District has released this year's results from the comprehensive Stanford 9 Achievement Test which was administered ad-ministered this past year to millions mil-lions of public school students in Utah and across the nation. Ac- cording to the data, Alpine District Dis-trict scores remain higher than the U.S. at every grade level and in every subject except language arts. All Alpine scores are higher or at least as high as Utah. The Stanford Achievement Making a school change? Deadline is January 31 The window of opportunity for changing schools in the Alpine School District for the 1999-00 school year will close on January 31, 1999. Students who wish to attend a school other than their boundary school next year, must apply before the deadline. Alpine School District's Out-Of-Area Program gives parents the opportunity oppor-tunity to choose where their children chil-dren will go to school. This Choice Program is in operation state-wide and is open to all students stu-dents without regard to the location loca-tion of their residence. The following fol-lowing are some of the guidelines for this program: Prior to January 31", the student's parent or guardian must fill out an Out-Of-Area Request Re-quest form and submit it to the school of Choice. These applications applica-tions can be obtained from any school office. The principal reviews the Out-Of-Area applications in the order they are received. Prior to March 15th, each request re-quest will be granted or denied on the basis of classroom space and the availability of programs and staff. A number of schools have been closed to students living liv-ing outside their boundaries in order to avoid overcrowding or to balance student populations. These are: Cedar Ridge Elementary Manila Elementary Grovecrest Elementary Central Elementary Valley View Elementary New Pleasant Grove Elementary Elemen-tary Rocky Mountain Elementary Northridge Elementary Orchard Elementary Windsor Elementary Cascade Elementary Sharon Elementary New Northeast Orem Elementary Elemen-tary Lakeridge Junior High Mountain Ridge Junior High Oak Canyon Junior High , Timpanogos High Students who receive an Out-Of-Area permit are obligated to remain at the Choice school for the full school year and may not return to the boundary school before the next school year. I District bus service is not pro dded for students who transfer chools. Parents are responsible i0 see that students get to and from school each day. Students seeking to participate partici-pate in interscholastic competition competi-tion will be subject to the policies poli-cies established by the Utah High School Activities Association. If'. 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For this reason, comparisons of local students with other groups at these additional addi-tional grade levels are not available. avail-able. There are five subject areas ar-eas tested through the program, with a total score which represents repre-sents the average of subject areas. ar-eas. The following total scores follow fol-low with comparable percentiles from the state (the national score is the median 50 percentile): Grade 5: Alpine District, 55; Utah, 50; Grade 8: Alpine District, Dis-trict, 57; Utah, 54; Grade 11: Alpine Al-pine District, 64; Utah 58. With respect to the individual subject areas, the following scores were posted for the district and state at the three grade levels lev-els (Again, the national score is the 50 percentile): Alpine School District, Grade 5: Reading, 52; mathematics, 52; language arts, 50; natural science, sci-ence, 65; social science, 56. Utah, Grade 5: Reading, 47; mathematics, mathemat-ics, 49; language arts, 44; natural natu-ral science, 60; social science, 51. Alpine School District, Grade 8: Reading, 53; mathematics, 60; language arts, 54; natural science, sci-ence, 62; social science, 58. Utah, Grade 8: reading, 53; mathematics, mathemat-ics, 60; language arts, 50; natural natu-ral science, 58; social science, 58. Alpine School District, Grade 11: Reading, 65; mathematics, 73; language arts, 53; natural science, 67; social science, 62. Utah, Grade 11: Reading, 60; mathematics, 68; language arts, ' 53; natural science 62; social science, sci-ence, 52. It should be noted that in two grades where Utah students did not take the exam, Alpine scores were below the national median in language arts: 4th grade at 46, 9th grade at 49. These percentiles percen-tiles have district administrators concerned. "The scores are not cause for alarm, but for renewed effort and focus," noted Alpine superinten dent Dr. Steven Baugh. "We have " already gone to work on it. We are initiating innovative programs pro-grams in the language arts area to increase student awareness and achievement." According to the data, overall changes from 1997 to 1998 were positive. The largest changes in the composite scores were increases in-creases of 4 percentile in grade 7 and 3 percentile in grade 11. With respect to gender differences differ-ences in the results, females generally gen-erally scored higher in reading than males, although scores were equal in grade 11. Males generally gener-ally scored higher than females in mathematics, but scores were the same in grade 6 and similar in grades 4, 7, and 8. Overall, math and science achievement consistently exceeded reading and language arts results. 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