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CENTRAL HIGH · CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO
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MAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
49.5%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 37.2%
County avg 44.1%
+1.2pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
41.5%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 37.7%
County avg 46.5%
+9.8pp since 2021-22
Science
34.6%
State avg 41.0%
District avg 30.2%
County avg 38.8%
-0.1pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
36.1%
State avg 44.6%
District avg 36.1%
County avg 38.2%
-4.3pp since 2021-22

What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 42 of 100 do math at grade level, about 35 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 36 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45, 44, 41, and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 10 points, science scores have held steady, and social studies scores are down about 4 points.

Rank: CENTRAL HIGH places #187 of 443 Missouri high schools for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.4%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.1pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 22% typical for Missouri schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Missouri's top 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
High school48.1%53.7%28831.9%42.1%26331.2%37.4%28432.5%42.5%301

Performance levels, SY 2024-25

Share of tested students at each MAP level.

English Language Arts

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades10.6%38.9%31.2%19.1%
High school10.0%38.1%31.9%19.7%

Mathematics

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades21.8%19.7%24.0%34.3%
High school13.3%18.6%26.2%41.8%

Science

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades17.1%17.5%42.5%22.7%
High school15.8%15.4%42.2%26.4%

Social Studies

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades5.0%31.1%54.6%9.2%
High school4.3%28.2%55.8%11.6%

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. CENTRAL   Missouri avg

English Language Arts

44482021-2245552022-2344502023-2445502024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2549.5%37.2%44.1%44.9%
SY 2023-2449.9%36.5%43.2%44.0%
SY 2022-2354.5%38.1%45.1%44.5%
SY 2021-2248.3%40.8%44.1%44.1%

Mathematics

40322021-2242362022-2342362023-2444422024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2541.5%37.7%46.5%43.8%
SY 2023-2436.3%35.8%46.0%42.4%
SY 2022-2335.6%33.1%42.9%41.8%
SY 2021-2231.7%35.0%41.8%40.4%

Science

39352021-2241372022-2339402023-2441352024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2534.6%30.2%38.8%41.0%
SY 2023-2440.4%29.1%40.0%39.4%
SY 2022-2336.8%31.0%41.8%40.5%
SY 2021-2234.7%30.2%39.6%38.7%

Social Studies

46402021-2244402022-2343462023-2445362024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2536.1%36.1%38.2%44.6%
SY 2023-2445.8%45.8%40.4%42.9%
SY 2022-2339.8%39.8%43.0%44.3%
SY 2021-2240.4%40.4%42.8%45.9%

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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 49.5% mean for English Language Arts at CENTRAL HIGH?
It means about 49.5 percent of students tested at CENTRAL HIGH 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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