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Students in the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District continue to exceed statewide averages on the California High School Exit Exam, according to statistics released by Associate Superintendent Brigitte Sarraf.
According to Sarraf, 97 percent of the combined senior class from Mountain View and Los Altos high schools passed the exam by May 2009, compared to the statewide average of 90 percent.
“Of the 3 percent that did not pass the exam, most were special-education or English learner students,” Sarraf said in a press release.
Among 10th graders who took the exam this past year, 92 percent of MVHS students and 85 percent of LAHS students passed the language arts portion, compared to a statewide pass rate of less than 80 percent.
According to the Santa Clara County Office of Education, Exit Exam test results reveal a closing in the achievement gap countywide. Over the last five years, the performance gap between white and Hispanic subgroups has decreased by 3 percentage points in language arts and 7 percentage points in mathematics, the press release said.
