Students at Lugoff-Elgin High School and its feeder schools posted some impressive numbers in the most recent statewide basic skills testing, but those scores still were lower than school administrators had hoped.

The percentage of students at Lugoff-Elgin high, middle and elementary schools and Blaney Elementary School who met the state’s standards in the Basic Skills Assessment Program ranged from 76 percent to 98 percent.

“Some of them are up. Some aren’t,” said Coke Goodwin, assistant superintendent of instruction for Kershaw County schools. “We’re hoping to improve those (basic skills) even more as time goes along.”

BSAP measures a student’s basic skill level in math, reading and writing and is based on a standard set up by the state.

The recent results were from BSAP tests given in the spring. Goodwin said the biggest concerns coming from those tests were at the high school level. He noted that the basic skills test given to 10th-graders is the same test used as the state’s high school exit exam.

Goodwin added, however, that the number of students successfully completing the state’s exit exam was on the rise throughout the district.

Luggoff-Elgin High School had 87.7 percent of last year’s sophomores meet the state standard in writing and 84.1 percent meet the reading standard, compared to 77.6 percent in math.

“That would be our biggest area of concern,” Goodwin said, adding the district had hoped for somewhat higher numbers among its sophomores.

“I would say everything at the 87 percentile and above. We’re getting close to that in reading, and we’re above that in writing. The math, we’ve got a ways to work on.”

First-graders at Lugoff Elementary continued to post exceptional scores in both math and reading. The school had 98.4 percent of last year’s first- graders meet the standard in math, compared to 99.3 in 1989. In reading, 98.4 met the state’s standard, compared to 98.6 the year before.