93 national percentile on I-Ready

[Anonymous]

Is this mediocre, just ok, or actually good for 3rd grade? Seems like quite a few kids score in the 99th percentile. What is your anecdotal experience?

[Anonymous]

Your kid is well above average! And, almost certainly, ahead of grade level.

Anecdotally, a lot of kids in this area do score 99th percentile. They don't get anything special for being more above average than your kid, though. We also don't know if those kids are in your kid's class.

Unless the school gives you a breakdown of the kinds of questions they missed, there is not a lot you can do with this information.

[Anonymous]

One percent of kids score in the 99th percentile! That's what a percentile is.

[Anonymous]

It's really good. In this area they probably have other strong scorers in their class, but it's good.

The thing about the 99th percentile is some kids in it are just slightly above the 98th percentile, and others are way way above that. Because the 99th percentile doesn't really have an end to it. You can try to figure out which kind of kid is yours. Mine were the first kind and they're certainly not geniuses but they do well and can easily handle high school Algebra and Geometry in middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One percent of kids score in the 99th percentile! That's what a percentile is.

Nationally.

The 99th percentile kids are more prevalent where 1%ers live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your kid is well above average! And, almost certainly, ahead of grade level.

Anecdotally, a lot of kids in this area do score 99th percentile. They don't get anything special for being more above average than your kid, though. We also don't know if those kids are in your kid's class.

Unless the school gives you a breakdown of the kinds of questions they missed, there is not a lot you can do with this information.

Yes for ELA, no for math. My 5th grader is on grade level (or technically ahead, but only insofar as she’s late 5th grade) at the 99th%ile.

[Anonymous]

Probably above average to very good depending on where you are in school. You may be able to get info out of your kid’s school about where their score falls within the distribution of scores at your kid’s school but they may not give out the specifics. For example we learned our kid who was 98th percentile in math was above average but still not at the top of the class. That was the kids who were 20-30 points above the floor for the 99th percentile.

[Anonymous]

Humble brag

[Anonymous]

My kids go to a public elementary school with mediocre ratings in a suburb of a non coastal city. They typically score somewhere in the 90s. They don’t do any studying outside of school/hw and aren’t all that interested in schoolwork. They also are technically on grade level or just above in most categories.

What is the deal?? Are the vast majority of schools in the US that bad? Are most kids seriously all below grade level? Listen, I think my kids are bright little wonderful kids but these iready results are pretty concerning when they indicate that performing at grade level puts you in the 90 something percentile.

[Anonymous]

Tell me you don't understand statistics by telling me you don't understand statistics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell me you don't understand statistics by telling me you don't understand statistics.

It’s a fair question to ask what it actually means around here. Obviously the OP understands 93 percent means nationally. At our elementary school 93 percent is not exceptional. Good enough for nobody to be worried about your kid and for them to be grouped with the kids who are doing well but not the kids functioning way above grade level.

[Anonymous]

Its very good but not exceptional. If your child is only in 3rd grade, they have years of standardized testing ahead of them. Dont worry about it.

[Anonymous]

Both my kids were 99 in DCPS and once I saw 96, which may have been national. I thought the printed out the same paperwork every year. It didn't tell me anything.
My older kid skipped school, rarely did homework, but is doing great in college. I wouldn't worry about the numbers from prk4-12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably above average to very good depending on where you are in school. You may be able to get info out of your kid’s school about where their score falls within the distribution of scores at your kid’s school but they may not give out the specifics. For example we learned our kid who was 98th percentile in math was above average but still not at the top of the class. That was the kids who were 20-30 points above the floor for the 99th percentile.

Yes, at our DCPS, every single kid in the advanced math group is scoring at 99th percentile. For some, this means good for 3rd grade but others are at a 5th or 6th grade level. iReady tells you this for Math with level c, d, e, f, etc (C is third grade, D fourth, e 5th, etc.). Your kid will know their level.

I would guess 93rd percentile means still on grade level.

[Anonymous]

This gives you the info on where scores fall for grade levels https://www.rcboe.org/cms/lib/GA01903614/Centricity/Domain/20337/iReady%20Scale%20Score%20Placement%20Results.pdf

This is the percentage table https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7539/urlt/iready-norms-tables-K-8-2020.pdf