ACAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient.English Language Arts
89.4%
State avg 52.7%
District avg 72.4%
County avg 48.8%
Mathematics
75.0%
State avg 31.8%
District avg 58.0%
County avg 28.2%
Science
70.8%
State avg 37.0%
District avg 66.3%
County avg 35.0%
What this means: On the ACAP, Alabama's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 75 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 71 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of AL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
79.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.2%
based on AL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+32.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% typical for Alabama schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 33 points, placing it in Alabama's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual.
How this is calculated →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 89.4% mean for English Language Arts at Saraland Elementary School?
It means about 89.4 percent of students tested at Saraland Elementary 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.
