Shrewsbury MCAS 2017 Scores

SHREWSBURY, MA – This year's MCAS procedure is confusing at best. To read up on all the changes, click here.

In short, a "new" MCAS test was administered to public school students in grades 3-8. Among the changes are a new scoring system that says whether students were exceeding, meeting, partially meeting, or not meeting expectations.

The "old" MCAS was taken by 10th grade students. The scoring system graded students as advanced, proficient, needs improvement, or warning/failing.

The subjects were math, English, and science. The science portion was only administered to students in grades 5, 8, and 10.

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For Shrewsbury, you can see how students in grades 3-8 did by searching The Boston Globe's database here. Click what grade and subject you want, and type "Shrewsbury" into the search bar.

The 10th grade numbers are a bit easier to digest. Here are the percentage of students among Shrewsbury High School 10th graders who scored advanced, proficient, needs improvement, and warning/failing.

• In math, there were 74 advanced, 19 proficient, 6 needs improvement, and 1 warning/failing. That's a 4 percent dip in advanced scoring compared to last year.
• In English, there were 69 advanced, 29 proficient, 1 needs improvement, and 1 warning/failing. That is 5 percent higher in advanced scoring than last year.
• In science, there were 47 advanced, 44 proficient, 9 needs improvement, and 1 warning/failing. Advanced scoring fell 8 percent from the previous year.

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