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Test scores

AK STAR + Alaska Science, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % Advanced + Proficient.
English Language Arts
44.3%
State avg 35.2%
District avg 36.1%
County avg 36.1%
Mathematics
26.4%
State avg 34.3%
District avg 36.5%
County avg 36.5%
Science
50.6%
State avg 41.8%
District avg 45.7%
County avg 45.7%

By grade, SY 2023-24

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade ALL44.3%35.2%9026.4%34.3%9050.6%41.8%86

1-year history

All grades, all students. Homer   Alaska avg

English Language Arts

35442023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2444.3%36.1%36.1%35.2%

Mathematics

34262023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2426.4%36.5%36.5%34.3%

Science

42512023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2450.6%45.7%45.7%41.8%

How to read these scores

What is AK STAR + Alaska Science?
AK STAR + Alaska Science is the statewide standardized test administered by Alaska public schools.
What does "% Advanced + 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 44.3% mean for English Language Arts at Homer High School?
It means about 44.3 percent of students tested at Homer High School performed at grade level or above on the AK STAR + Alaska Science English Language Arts test in 2023-24. The statewide average for Alaska that year was 35.2%. 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 Alaska, 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?
Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, AK STAR (ELA + Math grades 3-9) and Alaska Science (grades 5, 8, 10). School-level All Students rollup scraped from the per-school assessment-results pages on education.alaska.gov. Headline metric is the cumulative "Advanced + Proficient" rate (top 2 of 4 levels).
How often is it updated?
AK STAR + Alaska Science 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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