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Lapel High School had a significant change in the number of students passing the ISTEP test over last year. Tenth-graders passed with 67 percent overall and 74 percent in English compared to 57 percent overall and 61 percent in English last year. Other continual bright spots in Lapel schools include sixth-grade math (94 percent this year and last year), fifth-grade math (91 percent this year and 89 percent last year) and seventh-grade math (89 percent this year and 92 percent last year).