BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OK schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
67.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.7%
based on OK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for Oklahoma 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 23 points, placing it in Oklahoma'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 →What is OSTP / CCRA?
OSTP / CCRA is the statewide standardized test administered by Oklahoma public schools.
What does "% Proficient + Advanced" mean?
It is the share of students at the school who performed at grade level or above on the test, summed across the top two of four performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 67.1% mean for English Language Arts at RIVERS ES?
It means about 67.1 percent of students tested at RIVERS ES performed at grade level or above on the OSTP / CCRA English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Oklahoma that year was 30.6%. 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 Oklahoma, 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?
Oklahoma State Department of Education, Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP) for grades 3-8 and CCRA for HS. School-level Media-Redacted summary files from the OSDE state testing resources. Headline metric is the cumulative "Proficient + Advanced" rate (top 2 of 4 OSTP performance levels).
How often is it updated?
OSTP / CCRA 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.