Mansfield High School 2016 MCAS Scores Decrease

MANSFIELD, MA — The 2016 MCAS results are in and Mansfield is spectacularly consistent with their results from last year for the high school exam. Below are the results for the 10th-grade tests in math, English, and science.

English: 94 percent of students scored either advanced or proficient on the exam. down from 98 percent last year. This year, 63 percent scored advance compared to 68 percent last year. In proficient, the percentage is up a point from 30 percent to 31 percent. Five percent scored either failing or needs improvement.

Math: The number of students in the advance and proficient categories is down from 92 percent to 87 percent. The 72 percent of students in the advance category does not beat last year's result of 76 percent and, the number of students scoring in the proficient category is down from 16 percent to 15 percent. Fourteen percent of students scored needs improvement or warning/failing.

Science: Students scoring advance or proficient is down from 87 percent to 83 percent. Advance students are down from 36 percent to 32 percent while proficient students are even at 51 percent. Eighteen 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.

Data in this article is from the state's Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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