Fort Bend ISD students performed above their cohorts statewide on the 2016 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams, according to data released Monday. All of Fort Bend ISD’s schools earned a Met Standard rating with the exception of two campuses— Briargate and Ridgemont elementary schools—needing improvement. STAAR exams test students in third through eighth grades. High school students also test in English I, II and III, and algebra, biology and U.S. History. Statewide, Texas high school students performed best in U.S. history with 94 percent achieving a satisfactory rating on their exams. Fort Bend ISD students did better, still, with 96 percent of students receiving satisfactory scores. Texas students performed worse in English I with only 63 percent of students achieving satisfactory scores. Seventy-two percent of FBISD students achieved satisfactory scores in the subject. Third- through eighth-graders are tested in reading and math. Fourth- and seventh-graders also test in writing. Fifth-and eighth-graders take science in addition to reading and math. Eighth graders also test in social studies. Among third- through eighth-graders tested in reading in FBISD and across the state, eighth graders performed the best, with 88 percent in FBISD achieving satisfactory scores and 82 percent in Texas achieving the same. Sixth-graders performed the worst in reading of all grades, achieving a 78 percent satisfactory rating in Fort Bend ISD, compared with 71 percent of students receiving satisfactory scores in Texas. In math, fifth-graders performed the best among grade levels in the state with 79 percent achieving satisfactory scores while Fort Bend ISD’s fifth-graders also performed best with an 82 percent of scores satisfactory. Between fourth- and seventh-graders, the elder students performed best in writing with 70 percent in the state achieving satisfactory scores and 77 percent in FBISD achieving the same. Eighth-graders also performed well in science with 85 percent in FBISD achieving satisfactory scores, which was 9 percent higher than the state average. For more information on the 2016 scores, see the Sept. 1 edition of Community Impact Newspaper.