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What tradition at Arvada K-8 should never be changed?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
English Language Arts
17.4%
State avg 44.1%
District avg 52.0%
County avg 52.0%
District avg 52.0%
County avg 52.0%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Colorado schools by score · Jefferson County schools by score
CMAS, SY 2023-24
All grades, all students. % Met or Exceeded Expectations.Mathematics
9.2%
State avg 34.4%
District avg 41.0%
County avg 41.1%
District avg 41.0%
County avg 41.1%
Science
10.9%
State avg 34.4%
District avg 41.8%
County avg 41.7%
District avg 41.8%
County avg 41.7%
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 9 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 11 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 44, 34, and 34.
Rank: Arvada K-8 places #872 of 931 Colorado elementary schools, and #78 of 82 in Jefferson County for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
14.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.0%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% typical for Colorado 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 Colorado'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 | 20.0% | 43.6% | 35 | 22.2% | 43.5% | 36 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 4 | 14.0% | 43.4% | 43 | N/A | 36.5% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 5 | 28.9% | 48.2% | 38 | N/A | 39.8% | N/A | 16.2% | 39.2% | 37 |
| Grade 6 | 11.0% | 44.5% | 82 | 6.0% | 31.8% | 83 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 7 | 22.4% | 47.0% | 85 | 10.6% | 32.2% | 85 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 8 | 13.5% | 43.5% | 74 | 6.7% | 34.9% | 75 | 8.2% | 33.4% | 73 |
1-year history
All grades, all students. Arvada K-8 Colorado avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2023-24 | 17.4% | 52.0% | 52.0% | 44.1% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2023-24 | 9.2% | 41.0% | 41.1% | 34.4% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2023-24 | 10.9% | 41.8% | 41.7% | 34.4% |
Recent discussions
From the Arvada K-8 community.How to read these scores
What is CMAS?
Colorado public-school students in grades 3 through 8 take the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) in English Language Arts and Math each spring. Science CMAS is administered at grades 5, 8, and 11.
What does "% Met or Exceeded Expectations" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at "Met Expectations" or "Exceeded Expectations" on the CMAS 5-level performance scale (Did Not Yet Meet, Partially Met, Approached, Met, Exceeded). Met and above is Colorado's grade-level benchmark. A higher number is better.
What does 17.4% mean for English Language Arts at Arvada K-8?
It means about 17.4 percent of students tested at Arvada K-8 performed at grade level or above on the CMAS English Language Arts test in 2023-24. The statewide average for Colorado that year was 44.1%. 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 Colorado, 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?
Colorado Department of Education (CDE), Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS). School-level overall results published annually by CDE. Headline metric is the cumulative "Met or Exceeded Expectations" rate (top 2 of CMAS's 5-level performance scale).
How often is it updated?
CMAS 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.