More Ground Lost Than Gained in Brookfield 2013 CMT Scores

The Connecticut State Department of Education (SDE) released the results of the 2013 Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT) Tuesday afternoon.

Brookfield students who tested at or above proficiency level performed largely on par with exams administered in 2012 and 2011, as well as the baseline year, 2007, with a few exceptions.

Performance dropped in three grade/subject areas since the 2012 tests, with the largest drop in proficiency in third grade writing scores.
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Search through the full CMT state database above and compare Brookfield’s scores year-over-year in the interactive charts.
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Writing proficiency tested 9.7 percentage points lower in 2013, dropping from 93.8 percent to 84.1 percent. (Statewide scores dropped 2.8 points.)

Sixth grade writing scores also went down by 6.1 points, from 96.6 percent to 90.5 percent proficient. (Statewide: down 0.3 points.)

Fourth grade reading scores dipped from 92.1 percent in 2012 to 86.8 in 2013, a loss of 5.3 percentage points. (Statewide: down 0.7 points.)

Sixth grade math scores also dipped slightly, from 96.1 percent to 94.9 percent, but are down from a recent high of 99.1 percent in 2011. (Statewide: down 1.3 points.)

Brookfield students showed gains year-over-year in five grade areas, though most only a percentage point higher than 2012. The highest gain was in eighth grade science scores, which gained 2.2 percentage points, moving from 89.5 to 91.7 percent. (Statewide: down 0.7 points.)

Eighth grade reading scores, which slipped to 96.5 percent from 98 percent in 2012, are up 6.2 points since 2007.