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What do you wish you knew before starting at Pell City High School?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
English Language Arts
17.0%
State avg 52.7%
District avg 59.2%
County avg 57.1%
District avg 59.2%
County avg 57.1%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Alabama schools by score · St. Clair County schools by score
ACAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient.Mathematics
19.8%
State avg 31.8%
District avg 40.9%
County avg 35.3%
District avg 40.9%
County avg 35.3%
Science
22.4%
State avg 37.0%
District avg 43.2%
County avg 41.4%
District avg 43.2%
County avg 41.4%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 20 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 22 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Alabama schools, those numbers are about 53, 32, and 37.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% 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. Pell City Alabama avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 17.0% | 59.2% | 57.1% | 52.7% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 19.8% | 40.9% | 35.3% | 31.8% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 22.4% | 43.2% | 41.4% | 37.0% |
Recent discussions
From the Pell City High School community.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 17.0% mean for English Language Arts at Pell City High School?
It means about 17.0 percent of students tested at Pell City 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.