ATLAS, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Proficient (Level 3+4).English Language Arts
20.6%
State avg 33.9%
District avg 18.9%
County avg 26.9%
Mathematics
12.9%
State avg 36.5%
District avg 11.4%
County avg 24.7%
Science
15.5%
State avg 35.6%
District avg 16.2%
County avg 26.2%
What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 13 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 16 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.8%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 36% typical for Arkansas 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 →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 20.6% mean for English Language Arts at MURRELL TAYLOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
It means about 20.6 percent of students tested at MURRELL TAYLOR 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.
