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Fallston Middle School · Fallston, MD
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MCAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient (Levels 3-4).
English Language Arts
83.6%
State avg 50.6%
District avg 61.6%
County avg 61.6%
+6.7pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
49.8%
State avg 34.8%
District avg 41.0%
County avg 41.0%
+5.5pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
63.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.1%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.4pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% typical for Maryland 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 Maryland'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 →

2-year history

All grades, all students. Fallston   Maryland avg

English Language Arts

47772023-2451842024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2583.6%61.6%61.6%50.6%
SY 2023-2476.9%56.7%56.7%47.4%

Mathematics

33442023-2435502024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2549.8%41.0%41.0%34.8%
SY 2023-2444.3%39.7%39.7%33.2%

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How to read these scores

What is MCAP?
Maryland public-school students take the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) in English Language Arts and Math each spring (grades 3-8 + grade 10). MCAP uses a 4-level performance scale, with Levels 3 and 4 indicating proficiency.
What does "% Proficient (Levels 3-4)" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at Performance Level 3 ("Proficient") or Level 4 ("Distinguished") on MCAP. Levels 3 and 4 are MCAP's grade-level benchmark — top 2 of 4 performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 83.6% mean for English Language Arts at Fallston Middle School?
It means about 83.6 percent of students tested at Fallston Middle School performed at grade level or above on the MCAP English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Maryland that year was 50.6%. 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 Maryland, 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?
Maryland State Department of Education, Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP). School-level Performance Level data scraped from the Maryland Report Card SPA. Headline metric is the cumulative 'Proficient or Distinguished' rate (Performance Levels 3 + 4 on MCAP's 4-level scale).
How often is it updated?
MCAP 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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