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Gloucester schools achieve full accreditation

All eight Gloucester County Public Schools are fully accredited for the current school year after two years of missing the mark.

Gloucester High School was accredited with warning for the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 school years and Page Middle School, operating as an eighth-grade only school, was accredited with warning for the last school year. The other six county schools have remained fully accredited.

GHS was able to drop its “with warning” status thanks to a double-digit increase in its math SOL scores in the spring. The percentage of GHS students passing their math SOLs rose from 59 in 2013-2014 to 71 in 2014-2015. The accreditation benchmark for math, science and history is a 70 percent pass rate. 

The math pass rate at Page rose from 68 in 2013-2014 to 88 percent in 2014-2015. Page also struggled in English last year, where a 75 percent pass rate is required for accreditation.

Page had a 59 percent English passing rate in 2013-2014 but raised its rate to 72 pe...

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