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Hingham High MCAS Scores Remain Consistent

Find out how 10th graders in Hingham did on the exam.

The 2015 MCAS results are in and Hingham’s scores are fairly consistent to 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, down 1 percent from last year. This year, 79 percent scored advance compared to 71 percent last year. In proficient, the percentage is down from 28 percent to 19. Only 2 percent scored either failing or needs improvement.

Math: The number of students in the advance and proficient categories is down from 95 percent to 94. While the 78 percent of students in the advance category is an increase of 7 percentage points, the number of students scoring in the proficient category went down from 24 percent to 16. About 5 percent of students scored needs improvement or warning/failing.

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Science: Students scoring advance or proficient is up from 90 percent to 93. Advance students are up from 44 percent to 54 while proficient students are down from 46 percent to 39. 8 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).

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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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