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Licking Heights Middle School · Pataskala, OH
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Ohio's State Tests, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient or Above.
English Language Arts
53.0%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 65.6%
County avg 66.6%
-0.6pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
70.9%
State avg 56.1%
District avg 67.5%
County avg 63.8%
+0.7pp since 2021-22
Science
50.6%
State avg 60.7%
District avg 67.0%
County avg 69.7%
-17.8pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 70.2%
District avg 83.5%
County avg 76.6%

What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 71 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 51 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60, 56, and 61. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores have held steady and science scores are down about 18 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
55.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.2%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.2pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 67% typical for Ohio 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 →

4-year history

All grades, all students. Licking Heights   Ohio avg

English Language Arts

58542021-2259622022-2361512023-2460532024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2553.0%65.6%66.6%59.8%
SY 2023-2450.8%66.2%66.9%60.6%
SY 2022-2361.7%63.5%67.1%59.3%
SY 2021-2253.6%62.3%64.5%58.2%

Mathematics

51702021-2253682022-2354692023-2456712024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2570.9%67.5%63.8%56.1%
SY 2023-2468.6%61.7%63.4%54.1%
SY 2022-2367.7%60.2%62.8%53.3%
SY 2021-2270.2%54.7%59.5%50.8%

Science

60682021-2260622022-2360482023-2461512024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2550.6%67.0%69.7%60.7%
SY 2023-2448.1%66.2%66.3%59.9%
SY 2022-2361.9%64.1%69.2%60.2%
SY 2021-2268.4%67.0%69.0%59.6%

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How to read these scores

What is Ohio's State Tests?
Ohio's State Tests (OST) are administered each spring to public-school students in grades 3 through 8 in English Language Arts and Math, plus Science at grades 5 and 8. High school students take End-of-Course exams in Algebra I, Geometry, English II, Biology, US History, and US Government for graduation.
What does "% Proficient or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at "Proficient", "Accomplished", or "Advanced" on Ohio's 5-level performance scale (Limited, Basic, Proficient, Accomplished, Advanced). Proficient and above is Ohio's grade-level benchmark; the cumulative rate is what feeds the school's Achievement Star Rating. A higher number is better.
What does 53.0% mean for English Language Arts at Licking Heights Middle School?
It means about 53.0 percent of students tested at Licking Heights Middle School performed at grade level or above on the Ohio's State Tests English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Ohio that year was 59.8%. 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 Ohio, 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?
Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, Ohio School Report Cards Achievement Component. Building-level results for Ohio's State Tests (OST) in ELA + Math (grades 3-8), Science (grades 5, 8), high-school End-of-Course exams (Algebra I, Biology, English II, US History, US Government). Headline metric is the cumulative Proficient-or-Above rate (top 3 of 5 OST performance levels).
How often is it updated?
Ohio's State Tests 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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