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PLEASANT HILL HIGH · PLEASANT HILL, MO
See how it ranks: all Missouri schools by score · Cass County schools by score

MAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
49.4%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 41.8%
County avg 40.1%
-13.8pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
27.4%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 38.5%
County avg 40.3%
+0.2pp since 2021-22
Science
27.5%
State avg 41.0%
District avg 38.1%
County avg 37.3%
-15.9pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
38.5%
State avg 44.6%
District avg 38.5%
County avg 43.3%
-15.5pp since 2021-22

What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 27 of 100 do math at grade level, about 28 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 39 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 down about 14 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady, science scores are down about 16 points, and social studies scores are down about 16 points.

Rank: PLEASANT HILL HIGH places #201 of 443 Missouri high schools, and #3 of 9 in Cass County for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
38.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.0%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.2pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% 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 school49.1%53.7%20130.1%42.1%15927.2%37.4%19438.3%42.5%180

Performance levels, SY 2024-25

Share of tested students at each MAP level.

English Language Arts

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades5.0%44.4%33.3%17.1%
High school4.4%44.7%33.8%16.9%

Mathematics

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades9.3%18.1%41.3%31.1%
High school11.9%18.2%33.9%35.8%

Science

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades9.8%17.7%46.3%26.0%
High school9.7%17.5%46.9%25.7%

Social Studies

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades6.2%32.3%57.3%3.9%
High school6.1%32.2%57.7%3.8%

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. PLEASANT HILL   Missouri avg

English Language Arts

44632021-2244602023-2445492024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2549.4%41.8%40.1%44.9%
SY 2023-2459.9%47.4%41.4%44.0%
SY 2022-23N/A45.7%44.3%44.5%
SY 2021-2263.2%46.9%44.3%44.1%

Mathematics

40272021-2242232022-2342222023-2444272024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2527.4%38.5%40.3%43.8%
SY 2023-2422.2%48.1%40.9%42.4%
SY 2022-2322.7%44.6%42.4%41.8%
SY 2021-2227.2%41.2%39.0%40.4%

Science

39432021-2241322022-2339342023-2441282024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2527.5%38.1%37.3%41.0%
SY 2023-2433.7%42.5%37.2%39.4%
SY 2022-2332.4%38.1%39.9%40.5%
SY 2021-2243.4%42.2%38.7%38.7%

Social Studies

46542021-2243512023-2445392024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2538.5%38.5%43.3%44.6%
SY 2023-2451.0%51.0%40.5%42.9%
SY 2022-23N/AN/A41.3%44.3%
SY 2021-2254.0%54.0%41.6%45.9%

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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 49.4% mean for English Language Arts at PLEASANT HILL HIGH?
It means about 49.4 percent of students tested at PLEASANT HILL 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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