Grade 3 students at a small, rural school near Cornwall have beaten 82 other schools in their district and achieved one of the top scores in provincial tests.

The seven students at Martintown Public School met or exceeded provincial standards for reading, writing and math - something few other schools have done.

And they're the only elementary school in the Upper Canada District School Board to do it.

Principal Gary Atchison says parents shouldn't use these test scores to measure one school against another. He says parents must look at what's happening in the home as a more accurate way to predict a child's success at school.

"If you have somebody that spends time with their child at home at night, you know, reading or reviewing their home work, or their math or whatever - they control the amount of television they watch, they don't use the VCR as a babysitter - these things really make a difference in their education," say Atchison.

Atchison had only seven Grade 3 students last year. This year he has 24. He says class size can make a huge difference.

The government's standardized tests of Grade 3 students were conducted for a five-day period last May.