MAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.English Language Arts
49.8%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 43.0%
County avg 42.6%
-7.3pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
54.8%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 46.0%
County avg 45.9%
+18.8pp since 2021-22
Science
35.1%
State avg 41.0%
District avg 40.8%
County avg 39.3%
+10.9pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
33.1%
State avg 44.6%
District avg 33.1%
County avg 33.1%
-2.1pp since 2021-22
What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 55 of 100 do math at grade level, about 35 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 33 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 7 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 19 points, science scores are up about 11 points, and social studies scores are down about 2 points.
Rank: SMITH-COTTON HIGH SCHOOL places #199 of 443 Missouri high schools for state test proficiency.
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 49.8% mean for English Language Arts at SMITH-COTTON HIGH SCHOOL?
It means about 49.8 percent of students tested at SMITH-COTTON HIGH SCHOOL 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.
