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WILLIAM YATES ELEM. · INDEPENDENCE, MO
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MAP, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient + Advanced.
English Language Arts
71.2%
State avg 44.9%
District avg 59.1%
County avg 40.4%
+6.2pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
77.3%
State avg 43.8%
District avg 61.3%
County avg 38.7%
+7.4pp since 2021-22
Science
65.6%
State avg 41.0%
District avg 51.8%
County avg 36.9%
-10.9pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 44.6%
District avg 40.2%
County avg 40.3%

What this means: On the MAP, Missouri's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 77 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 66 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 up about 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 7 points and science scores are down about 11 points.

Rank: WILLIAM YATES ELEM. places #33 of 1,002 Missouri elementary schools, and #4 of 126 in Jackson County for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MO schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
72.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.4%
based on MO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+30.6pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% 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 31 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.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScienceSocial Studies
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 372.6%42.2%8475.2%41.7%85N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 467.9%44.1%7577.6%44.5%76N/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Grade 560.4%43.4%8168.5%38.5%8361.4%42.2%83N/AN/AN/A

Performance levels, SY 2024-25

Share of tested students at each MAP level.

English Language Arts

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades49.5%21.7%20.3%8.3%
Grade 348.8%23.8%13.0%14.2%
Grade 449.3%18.6%20.0%12.0%
Grade 539.5%20.9%32.0%7.4%

Mathematics

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades62.5%14.8%12.5%10.1%
Grade 362.3%12.9%15.2%9.4%
Grade 467.1%10.5%11.8%10.5%
Grade 546.9%21.6%20.4%10.8%

Science

GradeAdvancedProficientBasicBelow Basic
All grades38.3%27.3%16.4%17.8%
Grade 534.9%26.5%16.8%21.6%

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. WILLIAM YATES   Missouri avg

English Language Arts

44652021-2245672022-2344692023-2445712024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2571.2%59.1%40.4%44.9%
SY 2023-2469.1%56.6%39.4%44.0%
SY 2022-2366.7%57.6%39.4%44.5%
SY 2021-2265.0%57.1%39.3%44.1%

Mathematics

40702021-2242812022-2342782023-2444772024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2577.3%61.3%38.7%43.8%
SY 2023-2477.7%59.0%36.8%42.4%
SY 2022-2380.5%59.4%36.8%41.8%
SY 2021-2269.9%56.7%34.9%40.4%

Science

39772021-2241762022-2339722023-2441662024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2565.6%51.8%36.9%41.0%
SY 2023-2472.2%52.1%34.5%39.4%
SY 2022-2375.5%54.8%35.8%40.5%
SY 2021-2276.5%50.5%34.8%38.7%

Missouri Growth Model

Growth percentile by grade. 50 = typical growth.
TestSY 2023-24SY 2024-25
English Language Arts, grade 49989
English Language Arts, grade 5233
Math, grade 49995
Math, grade 5566
Science, grade 5573

From DESE's Missouri Growth Model (SAS EVAAS, Missouri Data Visualization Tool). It compares the growth this school's students made on MAP during the year with the growth expected from their earlier scores. 50 means typical growth; higher means more growth than expected, lower means less. It is not the share of students who scored proficient.

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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 71.2% mean for English Language Arts at WILLIAM YATES ELEM.?
It means about 71.2 percent of students tested at WILLIAM YATES ELEM. 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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