Milford High MCAS Scores Remain Consistent

The 2015 MCAS results are in and Milford’s scores are mostly consistent to last year’s exam. Below are the results for the 10th-grade tests in math, English, and science.

English: 93 percent of students scored either advanced or proficient on the exam, down 2 percent from last year. This year, 48 percent scored advance compared to 47 percent last year. In proficient, the percentage is down from 48 percent to 45. Only 6 percent scored either failing or needs improvement.

Math: The number of students in the advance and proficient categories is down from 83 percent to 74. While the 47 percent of students in the advance category is down by 4 percentage points, the number of students scoring in the proficient category also went down from 32 percent to 27. About 26 percent of students scored needs improvement or warning/failing.

Science: Students scoring advance or proficient is flat at 75 percent. Advance students are up from 26 percent to 32 while proficient students are down from 49 percent to 43. 25 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.