English Language Arts
61.3%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 43.9%
County avg 42.1%
District avg 43.9%
County avg 42.1%
Test scores
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MAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.Mathematics
40.0%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 39.1%
County avg 40.9%
+21.8pp since 2021-22
District avg 39.1%
County avg 40.9%
+21.8pp since 2021-22
Science
N/A
State avg 41.0%
District avg 61.3%
County avg 36.3%
District avg 61.3%
County avg 36.3%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 44.6%
County avg 38.4%
County avg 38.4%
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Missouri schools, those numbers are about 45 and 44. Math scores are up about 22 points since 2021.
Rank: PIERCE CITY HIGH places #266 of 443 Missouri high schools, and #6 of 7 in Lawrence County for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
33.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.3%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 49% 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.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | Social Studies | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| High school | 62.1% | 53.7% | 45 | 49.0% | 42.1% | 51 | N/A | 37.4% | N/A | N/A | 42.5% | 54 |
Performance levels, SY 2024-25
Share of tested students at each MAP level.English Language Arts
| Grade | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All grades | 15.9% | 45.4% | 22.7% | 15.9% |
| High school | 15.5% | 46.6% | 22.2% | 15.5% |
Mathematics
| Grade | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All grades | 27.5% | 12.5% | 25.0% | 35.0% |
| High school | 39.2% | 9.8% | 19.6% | 31.3% |
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. PIERCE CITY Missouri avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 61.3% | 43.9% | 42.1% | 44.9% |
| SY 2023-24 | N/A | 39.7% | 39.2% | 44.0% |
| SY 2022-23 | N/A | 38.7% | 40.6% | 44.5% |
| SY 2021-22 | N/A | 40.4% | 39.3% | 44.1% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 40.0% | 39.1% | 40.9% | 43.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 14.0% | 37.6% | 40.8% | 42.4% |
| SY 2022-23 | 21.4% | 40.4% | 40.1% | 41.8% |
| SY 2021-22 | 18.2% | 28.8% | 35.2% | 40.4% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | N/A | 61.3% | 36.3% | 41.0% |
| SY 2023-24 | 17.1% | 37.6% | 35.4% | 39.4% |
| SY 2022-23 | N/A | 34.0% | 35.0% | 40.5% |
| SY 2021-22 | 39.5% | 40.3% | 33.5% | 38.7% |
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 61.3% mean for English Language Arts at PIERCE CITY HIGH?
It means about 61.3 percent of students tested at PIERCE CITY 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.