"encouraging score" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a positive result or performance in a game, competition, or evaluation. Example: Despite facing tough competition, the team's encouraging score in the final round gave them the confidence to push through and secure their win.
Republicans are now closely divided about him, with 42 percent expressing a favorable view of him and 38 percent an unfavorable view – not a very encouraging score for the Texas governor from members of his own party.
This encouraging score was based on the existence of an official treatment policy, an officially identified person managing treatment service, a national quitline, a specialized and easily available treatment system with a network of tobacco treatment specialists[ 4], medications availability, and a package reimbursement.
Mr. Magid was known in particular for encouraging scores of local stations to adopt the "Action News" format, in which traditional news items are interspersed with a liberal dose of crime coverage and lighter entertainments like human-interest stories.
Administrators at Granada Hills Charter High School attribute their encouraging scores to campus-wide efforts to teach the new learning standards.
A public middle school on Capitol Hill had encouraging test scores, but it had seven times as many names on the waiting list as it had places for children who live outside Capitol Hill.
The midfielder Youri Djorkaeff has prepared an encouraging videotape of scoring chances for his teammates.
In an encouraging display, Sam Ricketts scored a superb curling effort on his return to the side after 10 months out.
The results of our study were quite encouraging with mean total score of 139.8 which establishes the fact that an educational environment such as this can be created to fulfil the enormous requirement of emergency physicians to serve the 1.2 billion people of India.
"The 5.71 score is encouraging but it also indicates that there's a lot of work to do.
On that score there was encouraging news for the Dutch squad, with Wesley Sneijder, who was on crutches following the friendly against Australia last weekend, close to full fitness, along with the two other injury worries, Phillip Cocu and Rafael van der Vaart.
Learning goals related to single-gene inheritance patterns (i.e., Mendelian inheritance, concept 5) are also adequately addressed nationwide in the state standards (average score 1.5), an encouraging but not unexpected finding.
