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Test scores

MAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
98.6%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 23.1%
County avg 24.6%
+8.2pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
88.7%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 19.9%
County avg 22.0%
+21.6pp since 2021-22
Science
90.1%
State avg 41.0%
District avg 20.6%
County avg 21.6%
+10.6pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
91.3%
State avg 44.6%
District avg 17.7%
County avg 17.7%

What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 99 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 89 of 100 do math at grade level, about 90 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 91 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 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 22 points and science scores are up about 11 points.

Rank: METRO HIGH places #1 of 443 Missouri high schools, and #1 of 16 in St. Louis city for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.4%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+70.4pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 93% 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 70 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 school98.6%53.7%15885.4%42.1%6990.1%37.4%8291.4%42.5%82

4-year history

All grades, all students. METRO   Missouri avg

English Language Arts

44902021-2245912022-2344992023-2445992024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2598.6%23.1%24.6%44.9%
SY 2023-2498.5%20.5%23.2%44.0%
SY 2022-2390.8%21.5%24.1%44.5%
SY 2021-2290.4%20.2%23.0%44.1%

Mathematics

40672021-2242792022-2342902023-2444892024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2588.7%19.9%22.0%43.8%
SY 2023-2490.2%17.9%20.5%42.4%
SY 2022-2378.9%17.1%20.2%41.8%
SY 2021-2267.1%14.6%17.7%40.4%

Science

39802021-2241902022-2339922023-2441902024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2590.1%20.6%21.6%41.0%
SY 2023-2492.4%16.9%18.7%39.4%
SY 2022-2390.0%22.3%22.7%40.5%
SY 2021-2279.5%18.2%19.9%38.7%

Social Studies

44842022-2343952023-2445912024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2591.3%17.7%17.7%44.6%
SY 2023-2495.0%25.7%25.7%42.9%
SY 2022-2383.7%16.0%16.0%44.3%
SY 2021-22N/A5.2%5.6%45.9%

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.
What does 98.6% mean for English Language Arts at METRO HIGH?
It means about 98.6 percent of students tested at METRO 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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