Governor French Academy - Belleville, Illinois

Academics: Standardized Tests

Lower School Tests

All Governor French Academy Lower School students take the Iowa Test of Basic Skills annually. The Governor French Academy is pleased to announce the following lower school standardized test scores:

Iowa Test of Basic Skills
	Vocab Skills	Reading Skills	Math Skills	All Skills (core)
Grade	Grade Equiv	Grade Equiv	Grade Equiv	Grade Equiv
K	2.3	2.5	2.3	2.2
1	3.6	3.3	3.1	3.3
2	4.7	4.6	4.1	4.3
3	6.0	5.8	5.7	5.7
4	7.2	6.5	7.6	6.7
5	7.3	10.3	7.8	7.9
6	10.2	12.8	10.5	11.1
7	10.6	13.3	12.2	11.9
8	10.8	12.7	13.0	13.6
Grade Equiv. = At what grade level the average GFA student performs. For example, our average eighth grader scored as well as the national average tenth grader in the eighth month of school (10.8 Reading Skills).

Upper School Tests:

All Governor French students are encouraged to take the ACT. Many take Advanced Placement (AP) test in one or more subjects. (The deadline in the usefulness, reliability, and consistency of the SAT in recent years has led to a significant decline in the number of Governor French students who use the SAT. Therefore, we no longer have enough students who take the SAT test to be able to report valid annual scores.)

ACT Results
GFA Average Score	% Testing	Illinois State Average Score	% Testing
27.6	100	21.5	78%

The ACT scores of The Governor French Academy students who have completed the Academy’s standard curriculum averaged 6.1 points above the Illinois state average.

High school students transferring to GFA from other programs who had not completed our core college preparatory curriculum scored an overage of 18.6 points upon entering. Students who completed the core college preparatory curriculum scored 25.75, an increase of 7.35.

The 2007-2009 ACT three-year average for The Governor French Academy was 24.84 compared to the national average of 20.8 for the same period.

ACT-tested graduates also report on their satisfaction and dissatisfaction levels for various aspects of their high schools. GFA graduates reported 0% dissatisfaction in the five areas of Classroom Instruction, Guidance Services, Remedial Skills Development, Honor Programs / Accelerated Curriculums, and Career Education and Planning.