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John J Young Middle School · Mishawaka, IN
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ILEARN, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % At or Above Proficiency.
English Language Arts
27.0%
State avg 39.2%
District avg 28.7%
County avg 37.6%
Mathematics
20.4%
State avg 41.1%
District avg 30.1%
County avg 37.6%
Science
N/A
State avg 41.5%
District avg 34.9%
County avg 38.7%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 36.9%
District avg 22.3%
County avg 34.3%

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 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
23.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.9%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-31.2pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 55% typical for Indiana 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 ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 725.4%36.6%34223.7%34.9%342N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 828.7%41.2%32417.0%33.6%324N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

1-year history

All grades, all students. John J Young   Indiana avg

English Language Arts

39272024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2527.0%28.7%37.6%39.2%

Mathematics

41202024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2520.4%30.1%37.6%41.1%

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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 27.0% mean for English Language Arts at John J Young Middle School?
It means about 27.0 percent of students tested at John J Young 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.

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