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Test scores

MAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
31.2%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 32.6%
County avg 35.4%
+7.0pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
33.4%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 26.8%
County avg 28.6%
+11.5pp since 2021-22
Science
27.2%
State avg 41.0%
District avg 28.3%
County avg 29.9%
+1.0pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 44.6%
District avg 32.9%
County avg 32.9%

What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 33 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 27 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45, 44, and 41. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 12 points and science scores are up about 1 points.

Rank: BUEKER MIDDLE places #276 of 379 Missouri 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
32.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.0%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Missouri 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 Missouri'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 625.7%39.3%18627.6%45.6%188N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 735.1%39.3%16245.4%43.4%165N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 828.6%42.7%18814.4%32.4%16726.0%39.3%188N/AN/AN/A
High schoolN/A53.7%N/A85.7%42.1%21N/A37.4%N/AN/A42.5%N/A

Performance levels, SY 2024-25

Share of tested students at each MAP level.

English Language Arts

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades14.2%17.0%41.8%26.8%
Grade 610.2%15.5%38.1%36.0%
Grade 722.2%12.9%39.5%25.3%
Grade 89.0%19.6%43.6%27.6%

Mathematics

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades14.4%19.0%33.8%32.6%
Grade 612.2%15.4%37.2%35.1%
Grade 721.2%24.2%26.6%27.8%

Science

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades11.6%15.6%37.7%34.8%
Grade 810.6%15.4%36.7%37.2%

Each tested student counts in exactly one level, so each row adds to about 100%. The headline Proficient + Advanced rate is the sum of the top two levels.

4-year history

All grades, all students. BUEKER   Missouri avg

English Language Arts

44242021-2245292022-2344312023-2445312024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2531.2%32.6%35.4%44.9%
SY 2023-2430.9%31.2%32.5%44.0%
SY 2022-2328.7%31.6%33.5%44.5%
SY 2021-2224.2%25.8%30.9%44.1%

Mathematics

40222021-2242232022-2342272023-2444332024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2533.4%26.8%28.6%43.8%
SY 2023-2426.6%23.4%27.7%42.4%
SY 2022-2322.8%22.6%25.9%41.8%
SY 2021-2221.9%20.0%23.1%40.4%

Science

39262021-2241302022-2339312023-2441272024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2527.2%28.3%29.9%41.0%
SY 2023-2431.1%27.6%27.6%39.4%
SY 2022-2330.1%29.4%28.0%40.5%
SY 2021-2226.2%21.5%24.0%38.7%

Missouri Growth Model

Growth percentile by grade. 50 = typical growth.
TestSY 2023-24SY 2024-25
English Language Arts, grade 66727
English Language Arts, grade 75988
English Language Arts, grade 86546
Math, grade 63848
Algebra I8798
Science, grade 86156

From DESE's Missouri Growth Model (SAS EVAAS, Missouri Data Visualization Tool). It compares the growth this school's students made on MAP during the year with the growth expected from their earlier scores. 50 means typical growth; higher means more growth than expected, lower means less. It is not the share of students who scored proficient.

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How to read these scores

What is MAP?
The Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) is Missouri's annual statewide test. Public-school students in grades 3 through 8 take MAP Grade-Level Assessments in English Language Arts and Math each spring, with Science added at grades 5 and 8. High school students take End-of-Course (EOC) exams, including English II, Algebra I, Biology, and Government.
What does "% Proficient + Advanced" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored "Proficient" or "Advanced" on MAP, the top 2 of 4 performance levels (Below Basic, Basic, Proficient, Advanced). Proficient and above is Missouri's grade-level bar. A higher number is better.
What does 31.2% mean for English Language Arts at BUEKER MIDDLE?
It means about 31.2 percent of students tested at BUEKER MIDDLE performed at grade level or above on the MAP English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Missouri that year was 44.9%. 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 Missouri, 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?
Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) Grade-Level and End-of-Course assessments. School-level file from the Missouri Comprehensive Data System (MCDS), as republished without a login by the Missouri Education Data Explorer (moschooldata.org). All Students group; "All grades" is DESE's own all-grades figure, and the high school row is the English II, Algebra I, Biology, or Government end-of-course exam. Headline metric is the share of students scoring Proficient or Advanced (top 2 of 4 MAP levels). DESE leaves a cell blank when a group is too small to report. Growth figures come from DESE's Missouri Growth Model (SAS EVAAS, Missouri Data Visualization Tool).
How often is it updated?
MAP 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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