Hispanic students making gains in Boulder
Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News
Published March 8, 2006 at midnight
Boulder Valley schools are making progress in raising test scores of Hispanic students, Superintendent George Garcia said today.
Overall, Boulder has some of the highest-performing schools in the state on statewide achievement tests. But pockets of Hispanic students, who make up 14 percent of the district's total enrollment, continue to lag. The gap between Hispanic and Anglo students in Boulder is the largest in the Denver area.
But Hispanic scores went up faster during the past four years, Garcia said in a presentation to the Colorado Board of Education.
For example, reading scores for Anglo students went from 96 to 99 between 2002 and 2005, a gain of 3 points on a scale devised by the Colorado Department of Education that runs from minus 50 to 150. Hispanic reading scores went from 28 to 40, a 12-point gain.
Hispanics made greater gains than Anglos on writing and math as well, Garcia said. He said poverty continues to be a factor in the disparity.
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