English Language Arts
35.0%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 32.3%
County avg 40.1%
-24.0pp since 2021-22
District avg 32.3%
County avg 40.1%
-24.0pp since 2021-22
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Missouri schools by score · Caldwell County schools by score
MAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.Mathematics
64.8%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 48.5%
County avg 45.4%
+2.9pp since 2021-22
District avg 48.5%
County avg 45.4%
+2.9pp since 2021-22
Science
61.6%
State avg 41.0%
District avg 61.6%
County avg 43.7%
-9.8pp since 2021-22
District avg 61.6%
County avg 43.7%
-9.8pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 44.6%
County avg 13.6%
County avg 13.6%
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 65 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 62 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 24 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points and science scores are down about 10 points.
Rank: POLO MIDDLE places #25 of 379 Missouri middle schools for state test proficiency.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
63.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.2%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% 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 20 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.| Grade | English Language Arts | Mathematics | Science | Social Studies | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | School | State | n tested | |
| Grade 6 | N/A | 39.3% | 23 | 86.8% | 45.6% | 23 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Performance levels, SY 2024-25
Share of tested students at each MAP level.English Language Arts
| Grade | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All grades | 8.5% | 26.5% | 55.3% | 9.5% |
Mathematics
| Grade | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All grades | 27.6% | 37.2% | 27.6% | 7.4% |
Science
| Grade | Advanced | Proficient | Basic | Below Basic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All grades | 31.9% | 29.7% | 27.6% | 10.6% |
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. POLO Missouri avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 35.0% | 32.3% | 40.1% | 44.9% |
| SY 2023-24 | 36.3% | 34.8% | 38.1% | 44.0% |
| SY 2022-23 | 43.5% | 39.1% | 39.3% | 44.5% |
| SY 2021-22 | 59.0% | 52.6% | 41.1% | 44.1% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 64.8% | 48.5% | 45.4% | 43.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 66.6% | 47.1% | 46.2% | 42.4% |
| SY 2022-23 | 78.8% | 66.0% | 55.8% | 41.8% |
| SY 2021-22 | 61.9% | 47.4% | 44.3% | 40.4% |
Science
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 61.6% | 61.6% | 43.7% | 41.0% |
| SY 2023-24 | 60.4% | 60.4% | 40.4% | 39.4% |
| SY 2022-23 | N/A | N/A | 41.7% | 40.5% |
| SY 2021-22 | 71.4% | 53.2% | 45.0% | 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 35.0% mean for English Language Arts at POLO MIDDLE?
It means about 35.0 percent of students tested at POLO MIDDLE 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.