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What's the best and worst thing about the food at Hillard Collins Elementary School?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Reading
40.3%
State avg 47.9%
District avg 54.7%
County avg 55.3%
District avg 54.7%
County avg 55.3%
Test scores
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KSA (K-PREP), SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient/Distinguished.Mathematics
33.7%
State avg 42.8%
District avg 53.5%
County avg 53.9%
District avg 53.5%
County avg 53.9%
Science
27.0%
State avg 33.1%
District avg 37.4%
County avg 37.4%
District avg 37.4%
County avg 37.4%
Social Studies
29.0%
State avg 38.6%
District avg 44.0%
County avg 44.9%
District avg 44.0%
County avg 44.9%
What this means: On the KSA (K-PREP), Kentucky's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 34 of 100 do math at grade level, about 27 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 29 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Kentucky schools, those numbers are about 48, 43, 33, and 39.
Rank: Hillard Collins Elementary School places #502 of 669 Kentucky elementary schools, and #15 of 16 in Boone County for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.3%
based on KY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Kentucky 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 Kentucky'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 →
1-year history
All grades, all students. Hillard Collins Kentucky avgReading
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 40.3% | 54.7% | 55.3% | 47.9% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 33.7% | 53.5% | 53.9% | 42.8% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 27.0% | 37.4% | 37.4% | 33.1% |
Social Studies
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 29.0% | 44.0% | 44.9% | 38.6% |
Recent discussions
From the Hillard Collins Elementary School community.How to read these scores
What is KSA (K-PREP)?
KSA (K-PREP) is the statewide standardized test administered by Kentucky public schools.
What does "% Proficient/Distinguished" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 40.3% mean for Reading at Hillard Collins Elementary School?
It means about 40.3 percent of students tested at Hillard Collins Elementary School performed at grade level or above on the KSA (K-PREP) Reading test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Kentucky that year was 47.9%. 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 Kentucky, 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?
Kentucky Department of Education, Kentucky Summative Assessment (KSA / K-PREP). School-level All Students subgroup from the KDE Open House supplemental datasets. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Distinguished" rate (top 2 of 4 KSA levels: Novice / Apprentice / Proficient / Distinguished).
How often is it updated?
KSA (K-PREP) 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.