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Test scores

Custer Middle School · WESTCLIFFE, CO
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CMAS, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Met or Exceeded Expectations.
English Language Arts
25.9%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 36.3%
County avg 36.3%
-10.5pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
11.1%
State avg 36.1%
District avg 17.6%
County avg 17.6%
Science
36.4%
State avg 36.4%
District avg 31.3%
County avg 31.3%
+16.4pp since 2023-24

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.2%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.3pp
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 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 733.3%49.4%21N/A33.8%N/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 8N/A44.7%N/AN/A36.6%N/A36.4%37.4%22

2-year history

All grades, all students. Custer   Colorado avg

English Language Arts

44362023-2445262024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2525.9%36.3%36.3%44.9%
SY 2023-2436.4%33.1%33.1%44.1%

Mathematics

36112024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2511.1%17.6%17.6%36.1%
SY 2023-24N/A20.0%20.0%34.4%

Science

34202023-2436362024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2536.4%31.3%31.3%36.4%
SY 2023-2420.0%22.2%22.2%34.4%

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 25.9% mean for English Language Arts at Custer Middle School?
It means about 25.9 percent of students tested at Custer Middle School performed at grade level or above on the CMAS English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Colorado that year was 44.9%. 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 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.

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