Stoughton High MCAS Scores Show Consistency

The 2015 MCAS results are in and Stoughton’s scores are very close to the results from last year’s 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 1 percent from last year. This year, 50 percent scored advance compared to 43 percent last year. In proficient, the percentage is down from 52 percent to 44. Only 6 percent scored either failing or needs improvement.

Math: The number of students in the advance and proficient categories is up from 80 percent to 81. While the 51 percent of students in the advance category is flat, the number amount of students scoring in the proficient category went up by a point to 30 percent. About 19 percent of students scored needs improvement or warning/failing.

Science: Students scoring advance or proficient is up from 84 percent to 88. Advance students are down from 39 percent to 30 while proficient students are up from 45 to 58. 11 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.