By: Sheri Leviski
2009-06-10
11:36:33
The Ontario Secondary School Literacy test results are in, and the Keewatin Patricia District School board scored just below the Provincial Average.
The public board saw a 3 percent decrease in their OSSLT test success rate.
Director of Education Larry Hope says their board wide score was 72 percent.
Beaver Brae came in at 73 percent, while Dryden improved their score at 80 percent.
The most drastic decrease in OSSLT results was in Ignace, with their marks going from 89 to 33 percent.
Meanwhile, the Kenora Catholic District School Board scored just 10 percent below the Provincial OSSLT average.
75 percent of St. Thomas Aquinas students were succesful with their first attempt at the literacy test.
The board's average dropped this year from 86 percent in 2008, to this year's 75.