MAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.English Language Arts
64.4%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 52.2%
County avg 53.5%
-8.6pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
74.6%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 52.4%
County avg 53.4%
+5.2pp since 2021-22
Science
65.0%
State avg 41.0%
District avg 51.6%
County avg 51.8%
+14.1pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 44.6%
County avg 52.2%
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 75 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 65 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45, 44, and 41. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points and science scores are up about 14 points.
Rank: PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH places #15 of 443 Missouri high schools for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
65.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.2%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% 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 15 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 →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 64.4% mean for English Language Arts at PARK HILL SOUTH HIGH?
It means about 64.4 percent of students tested at PARK HILL SOUTH 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.
