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Test scores

MAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
N/A
State avg 44.9%
District avg 37.3%
County avg 52.0%
Mathematics
N/A
State avg 43.8%
District avg 34.6%
County avg 51.5%
Science
N/A
State avg 41.0%
District avg 33.3%
County avg 45.1%
Social Studies
3.3%
State avg 44.6%
District avg 29.9%
County avg 47.6%
-3.0pp since 2023-24

What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 3 of every 100 students at this school are at grade level in social studies. The Missouri average is about 45 of 100. Social studies scores are down about 3 points since 2023.

Rank: EXCELSIOR SPRINGS TECH. HIGH places #443 of 443 Missouri high schools, and #11 of 11 in Clay County for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
3.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.5%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-20.8pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 4% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 24% typical for Missouri 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.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
High schoolN/A53.7%N/AN/A42.1%N/AN/A37.4%N/A1.8%42.5%59

2-year history

All grades, all students. EXCELSIOR   Missouri avg

Social Studies

4362023-244532024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-253.3%29.9%47.6%44.6%
SY 2023-246.3%6.3%41.3%42.9%

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.
How should I read a single score?
Each percent represents the share of tested students who performed at grade level or above. Compare the school number against the state, district, and county averages on this page to see whether it is above or below typical.
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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