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Highland Elementary School · PIERCE, CO
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CMAS, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Met or Exceeded Expectations.
English Language Arts
20.8%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 20.1%
County avg 38.7%
-3.1pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
N/A
State avg 36.1%
County avg 31.9%
Science
22.5%
State avg 36.4%
District avg 22.5%
County avg 30.1%
-10.8pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while science scores are down about 11 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
24.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.9pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% typical for Colorado 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 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 329.1%43.2%5538.2%42.8%55N/AN/AN/A
Grade 416.3%43.5%4920.4%39.0%49N/AN/AN/A
Grade 515.0%48.8%40N/A41.4%N/A22.5%40.5%40

2-year history

All grades, all students. Highland   Colorado avg

English Language Arts

44242023-2445212024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2520.8%20.1%38.7%44.9%
SY 2023-2423.9%23.4%38.6%44.1%

Mathematics

34222023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-25N/AN/A31.9%36.1%
SY 2023-2422.4%18.2%30.2%34.4%

Science

34332023-2436232024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2522.5%22.5%30.1%36.4%
SY 2023-2433.3%27.2%29.3%34.4%

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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 20.8% mean for English Language Arts at Highland Elementary School?
It means about 20.8 percent of students tested at Highland Elementary 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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