Foxborough 2016 MCAS Scores Sightly Down

FOXBOROUGH, MA — The 2016 MCAS results are in and Foxborough’s scores are about even when compared with their results from last year’s exam. Below are the results for the 10th-grade tests in math, English, and science.

English: 95 percent of students scored either advanced or proficient on the exam, down from 98 percent. This year, 48 percent scored advance compared to 50 percent last year. In proficient, the percentage is down a point from 48 percent to 47. Only 6 percent scored either failing or needs improvement.

Math: The number of students in the advance and proficient categories is up from 90 percent to 89. While the 65 percent of students in the advance category beats last year result by one percentage point, the number of students scoring in the proficient category is slightly down from 26 to 24 percent. About 11 percent of students scored needs improvement or warning/failing.

Science: Students scoring advance or proficient is up from 86 percent to 88. Advance students are up from 35 percent to 41 while proficient students are down from 51 to 48. 12 percent of students scored either needs improvement or warning/failing.

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 mandates that every student be proficient in English language arts and math by 2014. In Massachusetts, this proficiency is measured by the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS).

A school must improve in proficiency each year based on adequate yearly progress (AYP). In Massachusetts, AYP is determined by student performance on various parts of the MCAS.

All data used in this article is from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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