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Test scores

Northside Middle School · Columbus, IN
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ILEARN, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % At or Above Proficiency.
English Language Arts
37.3%
State avg 39.2%
District avg 39.3%
County avg 39.3%
Mathematics
35.1%
State avg 41.1%
District avg 41.5%
County avg 41.7%
Science
N/A
State avg 41.5%
District avg 40.0%
County avg 38.6%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 36.9%
District avg 36.0%
County avg 34.8%

What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.

Rank: Northside Middle School places #173 of 324 Indiana middle schools for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.7%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.5pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 736.6%36.6%45435.5%34.9%454N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 838.1%41.2%43834.7%33.6%438N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

1-year history

All grades, all students. Northside   Indiana avg

English Language Arts

39372024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2537.3%39.3%39.3%39.2%

Mathematics

41352024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2535.1%41.5%41.7%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 37.3% mean for English Language Arts at Northside Middle School?
It means about 37.3 percent of students tested at Northside 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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