IREAD3 Test results reported

The Indiana Department of Education has released the IREAD3 test results that measure students ability to read in third grade as a guideline to allowing them to move on to fourth grade.

Third graders had to take the state-mandated assessment, the IREAD-3, March 18-20. About 86.1 percent of Indiana’s third graders passed, according to data released by the Indiana Department of Education.

Department of Education spokesman Dan Altman said the high stakes test is obviously something important to the students, parents, school corporations and communities.

Reading and comprehension are the foundations for all academic learning, so Indiana lawmakers asked the Department of Education to create a third-grade reading exam as part of an effort to eliminate social promotion, according to the IDOE website.

Among area schools, pass rates ranged from 83.3 to 100 percent.

Greater Jasper: Ireland 93.9 percent; Tenth Street 85.0 percent.

Southwest: Huntingburg Elementary 88.9 percent; Holland Elementary 96.3 percent.

Southeast: Pine Ridge 96 percent; Ferdinand Elementary 96.4 percent.

Northeast Dubois: Dubois Elementary 94.4 percent; Celestine Elementary 90.5 percent

Pike County: Otwell Elementary 100 percent.

Two-thirds of IREAD-3 covers reading comprehension while the other third tests vocabulary skills and word recognition.