Foxborough High MCAS Scores Improve

The 2015 MCAS results are in and Foxborough’s scores are up 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: 98 percent of students scored either advanced or proficient on the exam, up from 96 percent. This year, 50 percent scored advance compared to 47 percent last year. In proficient, the percentage is down a point from 49 percent to 48. Only 1 percent scored either failing or needs improvement.

Math: The number of students in the advance and proficient categories is up from 87 percent to 90. While the 64 percent of students in the advance category beats last year result by 3 percentage points, the number of students scoring in the proficient category remains flat at 26 percent. About 10 percent of students scored needs improvement or warning/failing.

Science: Students scoring advance or proficient is up from 80 percent to 86. Advance students are down from 43 percent to 35 while proficient students are up from 37 to 51. 13 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.