Both local school boards continue to perform well on the province's EQAO tests.
The Education Quality and Accountability Office administers the tests to Ontario schools as a way of assessing performance of individual schools and school boards.
The tests are administered in Grade 3, Grade 6 and Grade 9.
Full results by board and by individual school board are available at www.eqao.com.
The results of the Upper Grand District School Board and Wellington Catholic School Board showing percentage of students at or above the provincial average when the tests were administered at the beginning of 2016 are as follows.
- Grade 9s in applied math: UGDSB 71 percent, WCSB 57 percent. (Provincial average is 45 percent).
- Grade 9s in academic math: UGDSB 89 percent, WCSB 90 percent. (Provincial average 83 percent).
- Success rate of Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test: UGDSB 82 percent, WCSB 87 percent. (Provincial average 81 percent).
- Grade 6 reading: UGDSB 83 percent, WCSB 79 percent. (Provincial average 81 percent).
- Grade 6 writing: UGDSB 80 percent, WCSB 76 percent. (Provincial average 80 percent).
- Grade 6 math: UGDSB 51 percent, WCSB 54 percent. (Provincial average 50 percent).
