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Test scores

CMAS, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Met or Exceeded Expectations.
English Language Arts
70.7%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 65.6%
County avg 60.0%
+3.9pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
54.6%
State avg 36.1%
District avg 55.1%
County avg 51.5%
+1.9pp since 2023-24
Science
61.4%
State avg 36.4%
District avg 57.8%
County avg 51.8%
+10.8pp since 2023-24

BeatsExpectations

Not computed for this school
BeatsExpectations is not computed for specialized-population schools (schools for the deaf or blind, therapeutic and behavioral-health placements, juvenile-justice and alternative-education settings, and similar). State ELA/Math proficiency rates are not a comparable metric for these populations, so a demographically-adjusted residual against general-enrollment peers would be misleading. About the methodology →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 372.1%43.2%4360.5%42.8%43N/AN/AN/A
Grade 468.3%43.5%4148.7%39.0%39N/AN/AN/A
Grade 568.3%48.8%4157.5%41.4%4055.0%40.5%40
Grade 668.6%44.8%3528.6%33.6%35N/AN/AN/A
Grade 776.9%49.4%3971.8%33.8%39N/AN/AN/A
Grade 869.7%44.7%3358.1%36.6%3170.0%37.4%30

2-year history

All grades, all students. Horizons K-8   Colorado avg

English Language Arts

44672023-2445712024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2570.7%65.6%60.0%44.9%
SY 2023-2466.8%63.2%58.3%44.1%

Mathematics

34532023-2436552024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2554.6%55.1%51.5%36.1%
SY 2023-2452.7%53.4%49.3%34.4%

Science

34512023-2436612024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2561.4%57.8%51.8%36.4%
SY 2023-2450.6%54.3%49.8%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 70.7% mean for English Language Arts at Horizons K-8 School?
It means about 70.7 percent of students tested at Horizons K-8 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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