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Kate D Smith DAR High School · Grant, AL
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ACAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient.
English Language Arts
42.9%
State avg 52.7%
District avg 47.0%
County avg 50.8%
Mathematics
22.6%
State avg 31.8%
District avg 23.3%
County avg 33.0%
Science
36.9%
State avg 37.0%
District avg 33.7%
County avg 39.2%

What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 23 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 37 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53, 32, and 37.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.9%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.8pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 53% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

1-year history

All grades, all students. Kate D   Alabama avg

English Language Arts

53432024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2542.9%47.0%50.8%52.7%

Mathematics

32232024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2522.6%23.3%33.0%31.8%

Science

37372024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2536.9%33.7%39.2%37.0%

How to read these scores

What is ACAP?
ACAP is the statewide standardized test administered by Alabama public schools.
What does "% Proficient" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 42.9% mean for English Language Arts at Kate D Smith DAR High School?
It means about 42.9 percent of students tested at Kate D Smith DAR High School performed at grade level or above on the ACAP English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Alabama that year was 52.7%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Alabama, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Alabama State Department of Education, Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program (ACAP) Summative. School-level All Students subgroup from the Alabama Achieves Participation and Proficiency files. Headline metric is the cumulative 'Proficient' rate (Levels 3 + 4 on the 4-level ACAP scale).
How often is it updated?
ACAP is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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