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MO DVT (Growth), SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. Growth Percentile vs MO Peer Schools.
English Language Arts
11.2%
State avg 49.5%
District avg 35.2%
County avg 32.9%
-37.3pp since 2023-24
Mathematics
26.0%
State avg 48.7%
District avg 52.0%
County avg 40.8%
-11.0pp since 2023-24
Science
20.0%
State avg 49.2%
District avg 55.1%
County avg 55.3%
-23.0pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the MO DVT (Growth), Missouri's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 26 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 20 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 50, 49, and 49. Reading and writing scores are down about 37 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points and science scores are down about 23 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.0pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 613.0%48.3%7726.0%48.3%77N/AN/AN/A
Grade 713.0%48.2%46N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 88.0%52.7%72N/AN/AN/A20.0%49.7%72
Grade HSN/AN/AN/A68.0%51.1%46N/AN/AN/A

2-year history

All grades, all students. BUTLER   Missouri avg

English Language Arts

48492023-2450112024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2511.2%35.2%32.9%49.5%
SY 2023-2448.5%48.8%43.1%48.5%

Mathematics

48372023-2449262024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2526.0%52.0%40.8%48.7%
SY 2023-2437.0%37.2%36.7%47.6%

Science

48432023-2449202024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2520.0%55.1%55.3%49.2%
SY 2023-2443.0%63.2%56.3%47.8%

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How to read these scores

What is MO DVT (Growth)?
MO DVT (Growth) is the statewide standardized test administered by Missouri public schools.
What does "Growth Percentile vs MO Peer Schools" 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 11.2% mean for English Language Arts at BUTLER HIGH?
It means about 11.2 percent of students tested at BUTLER HIGH performed at grade level or above on the MO DVT (Growth) English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Missouri that year was 49.5%. 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 / SAS EVAAS, Missouri Data Visualization Tool (MO DVT). Per-school value-added growth percentile from the public MO DVT API at modese.sas.com. NOTE: This is a GROWTH metric, not a proficiency metric. A "Growth Percentile" of 80 means this school grew faster than 80% of Missouri peer schools on the MAP Grade-Level Assessment over the year — NOT that 80% of students were proficient. School-level MAP proficiency is gated behind the MCDS portal login and is not currently ingested.
How often is it updated?
MO DVT (Growth) 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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