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How has Barker Middle School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
English Language Arts
26.8%
State avg 39.2%
District avg 28.0%
County avg 38.3%
District avg 28.0%
County avg 38.3%
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Indiana schools by score · LaPorte County schools by score
ILEARN, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % At or Above Proficiency.Mathematics
15.4%
State avg 41.1%
District avg 28.9%
County avg 43.3%
District avg 28.9%
County avg 43.3%
Science
N/A
State avg 41.5%
District avg 24.9%
County avg 42.3%
District avg 24.9%
County avg 42.3%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 36.9%
District avg 13.9%
County avg 34.4%
District avg 13.9%
County avg 34.4%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.6%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for Indiana 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 Indiana'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 2024-25
School score vs state average per tested grade.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | Social Studies | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| Grade 7 | 28.3% | 36.6% | 184 | 19.0% | 34.9% | 184 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Grade 8 | 25.2% | 41.2% | 159 | 11.3% | 33.6% | 159 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
1-year history
All grades, all students. Barker Indiana avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 26.8% | 28.0% | 38.3% | 39.2% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 15.4% | 28.9% | 43.3% | 41.1% |
Recent discussions
From the Barker Middle School community.How to read these scores
What is ILEARN?
Indiana public-school students in grades 3 through 8 take ILEARN each spring in English Language Arts and Math, plus Science (grades 4/6) and Social Studies (grade 5). High school students take ILEARN Biology as part of the state assessment system.
What does "% At or Above Proficiency" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at "At Proficiency" or "Above Proficiency" on ILEARN (top 2 of 4 performance levels: Below, Approaching, At, Above). At and above means the student is performing at or beyond grade-level expectations. A higher number is better.
What does 26.8% mean for English Language Arts at Barker Middle School?
It means about 26.8 percent of students tested at Barker Middle School performed at grade level or above on the ILEARN English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Indiana that year was 39.2%. 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 Indiana, 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?
Indiana Department of Education (IDOE), Indiana Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN). School-level results published annually in Excel format on the IDOE Data Center. Headline metric is the cumulative "At Proficiency + Above Proficiency" rate (top 2 of 4 ILEARN performance levels).
How often is it updated?
ILEARN 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.