CAASPP Results for California Common Core Testing

Foreward: I wrote this on another forum I am on. I am known there as a teacher so people were interested to hear this from me. We had a discussion on he disparity among ethnic groups and how parenting is involved in our children's education.
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http://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2015/Search

Well guys, here it is. I teach math at a high school in a nice area in socal. 57% of our 11th graders are proficient in Math and 75% are proficient in English(ELA). When we got those results last week for our school, we thought they were terrible. Then we saw the rest of the state's results....

Taken from
http://caaspp.cde.ca.gov/sb2015/Vie...TestType=B&lstCounty=&lstDistrict=&lstSchool=

Some highlight, or lowlights, I guess:

Asian 11th grade ELA Statewide: 78% proficient. This group makes up 8.5% of the students in the state
Hispanic 11th grade ELA Statewide: 46% proficient. This group makes up 47% of the students in the state
White 11th grade ELA Statewide: 68% proficient. This group makes up 24% of the students in the state
Average ELA Statewide: 56% proficient.
This is 92.1% of the 11th grade class statewide. (~80,000 students opted out of the test). This does not meet the 95% testing requirement.

Now here we go... I'm a math teacher and the disparity really make me sad:
Asian 11th grade MATH Statewide: 67% proficient. This group makes up 8.5% of the students in the state
Hispanic 11th grade MATH Statewide: 18% proficient. This group makes up 50% of the students in the state
White 11th grade MATH Statewide: 41% proficient. This group makes up 24% of the students in the state
Average MATH Statewide: 29% proficient.
This is 91.9% of the 11th grade class statewide. (80,124 students opted out of the test). This does not meet the 95% student testing requirement.

Your thoughts? These results will be each schools baseline for this year. We must meet AYP growth from this years testing to stay out of Program Improvement.

 

Sucks man. My girlfriend is a 2nd grade teacher up here and even at that age the push for common core knowledge is mind blowing to me. I don't remember ever being assessed that young, I think in Colorado we didn't start that sort of testing til maybe 3rd if not 4th grade. I definitely understand the need for parenting as part of the education process, she has some great parents who go over their children's homework and take and active role and others who don't. The ones with active parents seem to do quite a bit better but even the ones who struggle benefit from having that support in my opinion.

Thanks for being a teacher because I know I couldn't do it day in and day out. As a supervisor I have a hard enough time trying to get 2 grown adults to stay on task and get work done.

 

Thank you for the response. We have block schedule so each period is 100 minutes long. We only meet 2 or 3 times a week, depending on even or odd days. Keeping attention in my calculus class is easy for the duration, but not so easy for my Sophomores in Algebra 2.... Keep them busy and they will work.

 

@ERMB