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White Bear Lake Area High School · WHITE BEAR LAKE, MN
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MCA, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Meets or Exceeds Standards.
Reading
44.7%
State avg 49.7%
District avg 52.7%
County avg 40.6%
Mathematics
32.3%
State avg 45.3%
District avg 48.7%
County avg 32.9%
Science
25.9%
State avg 28.4%
District avg 24.0%
County avg 21.2%

What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 32 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 26 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50, 45, and 28.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
37.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.4%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.0pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Minnesota 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.
GradeReadingMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 1044.7%51.7%566N/AN/AN/A44.7%51.7%566

1-year history

All grades, all students. White Bear Lake Area   Minnesota avg

Reading

50452024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2544.7%52.7%40.6%49.7%

Mathematics

45322024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2532.3%48.7%32.9%45.3%

Science

28262024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2525.9%24.0%21.2%28.4%

How to read these scores

What is MCA?
Minnesota public-school students take the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA) each spring in Reading and Math (grades 3-8 + grade 10) and Science (grades 5, 8, and high school). MCA uses 4 performance levels: Does Not Meet, Partially Meets, Meets, and Exceeds Standards.
What does "% Meets or Exceeds Standards" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores were "Meets the Standards" or "Exceeds the Standards" on the MCA — the top 2 of 4 performance levels (Does Not Meet, Partially Meets, Meets, Exceeds). Meets and above is Minnesota's grade-level benchmark. A higher number is better.
What does 44.7% mean for Reading at White Bear Lake Area High School?
It means about 44.7 percent of students tested at White Bear Lake Area High School performed at grade level or above on the MCA Reading test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Minnesota that year was 49.7%. 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 Minnesota, 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?
Minnesota Department of Education (MDE), Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA) + MTAS + Alternate MCA combined ("All Standards-Based"). School-level Percent Proficient from the MDE Assessment Files. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meets + Exceeds Standards" rate (top 2 of 4 MCA performance levels).
How often is it updated?
MCA 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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