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Test scores

MAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
9.9%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 12.4%
County avg 47.4%
-0.9pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
3.2%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 5.3%
County avg 44.9%
-2.7pp since 2021-22
Science
3.7%
State avg 41.0%
District avg 6.4%
County avg 43.5%
-9.9pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 44.6%
District avg 12.0%
County avg 49.5%

What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 3 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 4 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45, 44, and 41. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are down about 3 points and science scores are down about 10 points.

Rank: GIBSON ELEM. places #981 of 1,002 Missouri elementary schools, and #128 of 133 in St. Louis County for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
7.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.9%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-29.4pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% 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
Grade 312.0%42.2%676.1%41.7%67N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 44.9%44.1%83N/A44.5%N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 512.6%43.4%643.2%38.5%643.2%42.2%64N/AN/AN/A

4-year history

All grades, all students. GIBSON   Missouri avg

English Language Arts

44112021-224582022-2344132023-2445102024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-259.9%12.4%47.4%44.9%
SY 2023-2412.5%11.3%46.3%44.0%
SY 2022-238.3%13.6%46.8%44.5%
SY 2021-2210.8%8.9%45.9%44.1%

Mathematics

4062021-224232022-234252023-244432024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-253.2%5.3%44.9%43.8%
SY 2023-244.9%4.4%43.0%42.4%
SY 2022-232.6%2.5%42.0%41.8%
SY 2021-225.9%2.0%40.9%40.4%

Science

39142021-224162022-233992023-244142024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-253.7%6.4%43.5%41.0%
SY 2023-248.7%4.6%42.0%39.4%
SY 2022-236.2%5.9%42.0%40.5%
SY 2021-2213.6%7.0%40.0%38.7%

Missouri Growth Model

Growth percentile by grade. 50 = typical growth.
TestSY 2023-24SY 2024-25
English Language Arts, grade 4342
English Language Arts, grade 57984
Math, grade 4355
Math, grade 58457
Science, grade 58213

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 9.9% mean for English Language Arts at GIBSON ELEM.?
It means about 9.9 percent of students tested at GIBSON ELEM. 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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