Harvard students continue to do well both on standardized tests and in activities ranging from the Math Olympiad and Business Professionals of America to the Rubik’s Cube competition, principals Sue Frederick and Scott Hoffman reported to the School Committee earlier this week.
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Although they included the results of the 2016 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) in their report, Hoffman and Frederick both emphasized that they want to encourage a balance between academics and students’ other interests. “We want to be so much more than our scores,” Hoffman said. In addition to test results, the administrators highlighted the number of students who take part in sports, art, music, drama, service organizations, and leadership programs.
Hildreth Elementary School stands among the top 1 percent of schools in the state, based on results from the MCAS. And Bromfield was listed as a gold-medal school in 2016 by U.S. News & World Report, while also placing seventh in Boston magazine’s list of best public and charter high schools in the area.
Both principals presented graphs of the MCAS results for the past four years. While there was variation from year to year and grade to grade, by 10th grade the scores were nearly all clustered at the high end of the graphs. Since 2013, about 80 percent of Harvard 10th-graders have scored in the advanced category in English, with the rest scoring as proficient. An even higher percentage have scored advanced in math, with more than 95 percent either advanced or proficient each year.
