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Best kept secret on campus at MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
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English Language Arts
10.1%
State avg 33.9%
District avg 10.4%
County avg 21.2%
District avg 10.4%
County avg 21.2%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Arkansas schools by score · Jefferson County schools by score
ATLAS, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Proficient (Level 3+4).Mathematics
8.0%
State avg 36.5%
District avg 8.4%
County avg 21.4%
District avg 8.4%
County avg 21.4%
Science
7.1%
State avg 35.6%
District avg 8.9%
County avg 20.9%
District avg 8.9%
County avg 20.9%
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 8 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 7 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34, 36, and 36.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
8.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.3%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% 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 2023-24
School score vs state average per tested grade.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| Grade 3 | 8.7% | 36.1% | 69 | 4.3% | 37.8% | 69 | 7.2% | 35.9% | 69 |
| Grade 4 | 9.8% | 36.0% | 51 | 3.9% | 38.0% | 51 | 5.9% | 35.7% | 51 |
| Grade 5 | 13.0% | 36.6% | 69 | 5.8% | 38.0% | 69 | 8.6% | 35.6% | 69 |
| Grade 6 | 8.1% | 34.1% | 49 | 20.4% | 37.7% | 49 | 6.1% | 34.6% | 49 |
1-year history
All grades, all students. MATTHEWS Arkansas avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2023-24 | 10.1% | 10.4% | 21.2% | 33.9% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2023-24 | 8.0% | 8.4% | 21.4% | 36.5% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2023-24 | 7.1% | 8.9% | 20.9% | 35.6% |
Recent discussions
From the MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community.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 10.1% mean for English Language Arts at MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
It means about 10.1 percent of students tested at MATTHEWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performed at grade level or above on the ATLAS English Language Arts test in 2023-24. The statewide average for Arkansas that year was 33.9%. 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.