Canton MCAS 2017 Scores: Science Sees Big Jump

CANTON, MA – This year's MCAS procedure is confusing at best. To read up on all the changes, click here.

In short, a "new" MCAS test was administered to public school students in grades 3-8. Among the changes are a new scoring system that says whether students were exceeding, meeting, partially meeting, or not meeting expectations.

The "old" MCAS was taken by 10th grade students. The scoring system graded students as advanced, proficient, needs improvement, or warning/failing.

The subjects were math, English, and science. The science portion was only administered to students in grades 5, 8, and 10.

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For Canton, you can see how students in grades 3-8 did by searching The Boston Globe's database here. Click what grade and subject you want, and type "Canton" into the search bar.

The 10th grade numbers are a bit easier to digest. Here are the percentage of students among Canton High School 10th graders who scored advanced, proficient, needs improvement, and warning/failing.

• In math, there were 63 advanced, 24 proficient, 10 needs improvement, and 2 warning/failing. That is a 5 percent drop from last year in advanced scoring.
• In English, there were 67 advanced, 32 proficient, 0 needs improvement, and 1 warning/failing. That is a two percent boost in advanced scoring.
• In science, there were 58 advanced, 35 proficient, 7 needs improvement, and 0 warning/failing. That is an impressive 10 percent jump in advanced scoring.

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