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MARION HIGH SCHOOL · MARION, AR
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ATLAS, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient (Level 3+4).
English Language Arts
25.5%
State avg 34.9%
District avg 19.7%
County avg 17.0%
+6.4pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
N/A
State avg 38.9%
District avg 15.7%
County avg 16.5%
Science
N/A
State avg 38.4%
District avg 17.7%
County avg 15.5%

What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level. The Arkansas average is about 35 of 100. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023.

Rank: MARION HIGH SCHOOL places #230 of 272 Arkansas high schools for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
17.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.5%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.7pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Arkansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Arkansas's top nor bottom 10%.

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

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
High schoolN/AN/AN/A1.5%26.2%19828.3%38.0%283

2-year history

All grades, all students. MARION   Arkansas avg

English Language Arts

34192023-2435262024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2525.5%19.7%17.0%34.9%
SY 2023-2419.1%21.8%17.4%33.9%

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How to read these scores

What is ATLAS?
ATLAS is the statewide standardized test administered by Arkansas public schools.
What does "% Proficient (Level 3+4)" 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 25.5% mean for English Language Arts at MARION HIGH SCHOOL?
It means about 25.5 percent of students tested at MARION HIGH SCHOOL performed at grade level or above on the ATLAS English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Arkansas that year was 34.9%. 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 Arkansas, 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?
Arkansas Department of Education, Arkansas Teaching, Learning & Assessment System (ATLAS). School-level Post-Appeals summary from the ADE DESE assessment files. Headline metric is the cumulative Level 3 + Level 4 rate (top 2 of 4 ATLAS performance levels).
How often is it updated?
ATLAS 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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