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A.D. HENDERSON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL & FAU HIGH SCHOOL · BOCA RATON, FL
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FAST / B.E.S.T., SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % at Level 3 or Above.
English Language Arts
96.8%
State avg 56.7%
District avg 96.8%
County avg 58.2%
+0.5pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
99.4%
State avg 58.9%
District avg 99.4%
County avg 60.8%
+0.8pp since 2023-24
Science
97.8%
State avg 58.7%
District avg 97.8%
County avg 59.0%
-0.6pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 97 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 99 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 98 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57, 59, and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady and science scores have held steady.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of FL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
97.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.9pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 97% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 70% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 28 points, placing it in Florida's top 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 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 389.0%57.2%6398.0%63.1%63N/AN/AN/A
Grade 494.0%56.4%72100.0%62.1%72N/AN/AN/A
Grade 596.0%55.7%7398.0%56.9%6595.0%55.0%73
Grade 698.0%59.5%98100.0%60.0%61N/AN/AN/A
Grade 795.0%56.8%75100.0%50.5%15N/AN/AN/A
Grade 896.0%54.9%71100.0%56.6%7899.0%48.8%71
Grade 9100.0%55.6%158N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 1099.0%57.7%153N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade HSN/AN/AN/A100.0%59.6%60100.0%71.5%52

2-year history

All grades, all students. A.D. HENDERSON UNIVERSITY   Florida avg

English Language Arts

53962023-2457972024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2596.8%96.8%58.2%56.7%
SY 2023-2496.4%82.6%54.0%52.9%

Mathematics

56992023-2459992024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2599.4%99.4%60.8%58.9%
SY 2023-2498.5%80.9%56.7%55.7%

Science

55982023-2459982024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2597.8%97.8%59.0%58.7%
SY 2023-2498.4%80.1%56.3%55.5%

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How to read these scores

What is FAST / B.E.S.T.?
Florida public-school students take the Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) three times a year in ELA and Math (grades 3-10), plus a B.E.S.T. Science test at grades 5 and 8. High school students take B.E.S.T. End-of-Course (EOC) exams in Algebra I and Biology. The Spring (PM3) administration is the summative measure used here.
What does "% at Level 3 or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at Level 3, 4, or 5 on Florida's 5-level B.E.S.T. performance scale. Level 3 is "On Grade Level"; Levels 4 and 5 are "Above Grade Level" and "Mastery". The cumulative top-three rate is the headline measure FLDOE reports for school grades. A higher number is better.
What does 96.8% mean for English Language Arts at A.D. HENDERSON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL & FAU HIGH SCHOOL?
It means about 96.8 percent of students tested at A.D. HENDERSON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL & FAU HIGH SCHOOL performed at grade level or above on the FAST / B.E.S.T. English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Florida that year was 56.7%. 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 Florida, 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?
Florida Department of Education, Florida Assessment of Student Thinking (FAST) and B.E.S.T. End-of-Course exams (Algebra I, Biology). School-level results from the FLDOE Spring PM3 administration. Headline metric is the cumulative "Level 3 or Above" rate on Florida's 5-level B.E.S.T. performance scale.
How often is it updated?
FAST / B.E.S.T. 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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