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WATSON CHAPEL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL · PINE BLUFF, AR
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ATLAS, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % Proficient (Level 3+4).
English Language Arts
14.1%
State avg 33.9%
District avg 16.1%
County avg 21.2%
Mathematics
9.0%
State avg 36.5%
District avg 13.4%
County avg 21.4%
Science
12.6%
State avg 35.6%
District avg 13.5%
County avg 20.9%

What this means: On the ATLAS, Arkansas's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 9 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 13 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Arkansas schools, those numbers are about 34, 36, and 36.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of AR schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
11.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.2%
based on AR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-22.5pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% 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 →

By grade, SY 2023-24

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 611.7%34.1%11112.6%37.7%11114.1%34.6%114
Grade 715.9%32.3%1267.8%37.8%12811.0%36.4%127
Grade 814.5%32.1%1246.9%27.6%11512.8%35.4%125
Grade HSN/AN/AN/A10.0%22.6%10N/A36.7%N/A

1-year history

All grades, all students. WATSON CHAPEL JUNIOR   Arkansas avg

English Language Arts

34142023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2414.1%16.1%21.2%33.9%

Mathematics

3692023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-249.0%13.4%21.4%36.5%

Science

36132023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2412.6%13.5%20.9%35.6%

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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 14.1% mean for English Language Arts at WATSON CHAPEL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
It means about 14.1 percent of students tested at WATSON CHAPEL JUNIOR HIGH 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.

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