Middle school students attending Foshay Learning Center, one of the first schools to adopt the Urban Learning Centers school reform model, continued to improve on their Stanford 9 scores for the third year in a row, according to data released by the California Department of Education.

The highest gains were those made by eighth-grade students in reading, whose scores since first taking the standardized test while in the sixth-grade in 1998 have risen nine percentile points from 20 to 29. In addition, those same students saw an increase of five percentile points in their math scores, from 22 to 27, during the same time period as well as a leap of 8 percentile points, from 24 to 32 in their language scores.

While the national average for the Stanford 9 is the 50th percentile, and Foshay students are still well below that average, the gains are nevertheless significant, said Dr. Greta Pruitt, director of the Urban Learning Centers.

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