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Ferndale High · Ferndale, CA
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CAASPP Smarter Balanced, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % met or exceeded standard.
English Language Arts
53.6%
State avg 47.1%
District avg 48.8%
County avg 39.1%
+5.6pp since 2014-15
Math
25.0%
State avg 35.6%
District avg 52.1%
County avg 29.9%
-7.0pp since 2014-15

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.7pp
below demographic expectation
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 ArtsMath
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 1153.6%55.8%2825.0%28.0%29

9-year history

All grades, all students. Ferndale   California avg

English Language Arts

44482014-1548382015-1649492016-1750482017-1851462018-1949252020-2147652021-2247372022-2347542023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2453.6%48.8%39.1%47.1%
SY 2022-2336.8%43.7%39.2%46.7%
SY 2021-2265.4%45.7%38.9%47.1%
SY 2020-2125.0%36.1%38.7%49.0%
SY 2018-1946.0%38.7%43.7%51.1%
SY 2017-1848.5%42.8%41.3%49.9%
SY 2016-1748.6%43.8%41.8%48.6%
SY 2015-1638.0%33.7%40.9%48.1%
SY 2014-1548.0%35.3%37.6%44.0%

Math

34322014-1537292015-1638262016-1739302017-1840222018-1934182020-2133462021-2235182022-2336252023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2425.0%52.1%29.9%35.6%
SY 2022-2318.4%37.8%28.8%34.6%
SY 2021-2246.1%38.7%27.2%33.4%
SY 2020-2118.2%25.5%26.3%33.7%
SY 2018-1921.6%34.8%32.0%39.8%
SY 2017-1830.3%32.9%31.3%38.7%
SY 2016-1725.7%32.7%31.8%37.6%
SY 2015-1629.0%25.6%31.2%36.7%
SY 2014-1532.0%24.4%28.7%33.6%

How to read these scores

What is CAASPP Smarter Balanced?
CAASPP (the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress) is California's annual statewide test. Public-school students in grades 3 through 8 and grade 11 take the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments in English Language Arts and Math each spring.
What does "% met or exceeded standard" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores were rated "Standard Met" or "Standard Exceeded" on the test. Those are the top two of four performance levels, and they signal the student is performing at grade level or above. A higher number is better.
What does 53.6% mean for English Language Arts at Ferndale High?
It means about 53.6 percent of students tested at Ferndale High performed at grade level or above on the CAASPP Smarter Balanced English Language Arts test in 2023-24. The statewide average for California that year was 47.1%. 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 California, 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?
California Department of Education, CAASPP Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment. School-level "All Students" subgroup. Scores suppressed for groups under 11 students.
How often is it updated?
CAASPP Smarter Balanced 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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