Thursday, September 30, 1999
How districts release scores to parents
• Beechwood Independent: Scores for the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills will be mailed to parents within the next week, along with an information sheet and names and numbers of school staff to call with additional questions. Scores for the Kentucky Core Content Tests will be distributed with report cards in early November. Parents of ninth-grade students can attend a parent information session at 7 p.m. Nov. 4 to pick up report cards, discuss test scores, hear a presentation by a college admissions officer, and set up four-year planning meetings for students' high school careers.
• Bellevue Independent: Call the school principal to find out whether scores will be sent out on a certain date or released at a conference.
• Boone County: Some schools will pass out scores at October parent-teacher conferences. Others will give out scores through PTA meetings.
• Campbell County: Call the principal to find out how individual test scores will be distributed. Some schools send scores home with students; others mail them to students' homes.
• Covington Independent: The district will send results home with students or mail them to homes at an undeter mined date soon.
• Dayton Independent: Parents will be notified by phone and by cable access channel that students are bringing test results home Friday. Parents will be advised to call principals or guidance counselors with questions or concerns about test results.
• Erlanger-Elsmere: Some schools will distribute and explain test results during open houses. Others will hold them until parent-teacher conferences in mid- to late October.
• Fort Thomas Independent: Highlands High School is sending its scores home with report cards Oct. 29, while the middle school will give out test data and answer parents' questions at a school meeting at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22. Moyer and Woodfill elementaries will send scores home with students by Friday. Johnson Elementary's test scores will be sent home with students Oct. 7.
• Kenton County: The county recommends handing scores and state guides on how to interpret test scores directly to parents or mailing them to homes. Some schools will have meetings to share school test results and answer questions about the test.
• Ludlow Independent: Will give out test scores at parent-teacher confer ences in November, after the first report cards are distributed. For parents who don't attend conferences, test scores of middle and high school students will be mailed to students' homes with their report cards. Scores will be taken home by elementary pupils when first report cards are distributed.
• Newport Independent: Scores will go out with the first report cards in early November.
• Silver Grove Independent: Scores are generally released at parent-teacher conferences in October.
• Southgate Public School: Results will be sent home Friday with pupils. The weekly newsletter will notify parents that test scores were sent home, and a meeting will be scheduled to answer parents' questions.
• Walton-Verona Independent: Test scores are sent home with initial progress reports in the elementary school, and with the first report cards in the upper grade levels. High school scores and most elementary scores will be mailed to parents. In all districts, parents seeking more information are encouraged to contact a guidance counselor or principal at their child's school, or the district's assessment coordinator.
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