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Test scores

JAMES M STEELE EARLY COLLEGE H S · ROANOKE, TX
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STAAR, SY 2023-24

All grades, all students. % Meets Grade Level or Above.
Reading
98.0%
State avg 51.8%
District avg 61.6%
County avg 62.1%
+12.0pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
71.0%
State avg 42.0%
District avg 50.4%
County avg 50.1%
Science
90.0%
State avg 35.6%
District avg 42.3%
County avg 40.9%
-10.0pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
95.0%
State avg 45.8%
District avg 59.4%
County avg 52.6%

What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 98 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level, about 71 of 100 do math at grade level, about 90 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 95 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52, 42, 36, and 46. Reading scores are up about 12 points since 2021, while science scores are down about 10 points.

3-year history

All grades, all students. JAMES M   Texas avg

Reading

42862021-2242782022-2352982023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2498.0%61.6%62.1%51.8%
SY 2022-2378.0%53.2%50.6%42.0%
SY 2021-2286.0%48.7%49.6%41.8%

Mathematics

42712023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2471.0%50.4%50.1%42.0%
SY 2022-23N/A42.3%46.0%39.4%
SY 2021-22N/A39.2%42.9%37.2%

Science

321002021-2236902023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2490.0%42.3%40.9%35.6%
SY 2022-23N/A29.8%35.8%31.6%
SY 2021-22100.0%36.3%37.0%32.5%

Social Studies

46952023-24
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2023-2495.0%59.4%52.6%45.8%
SY 2022-23N/A39.0%37.0%32.4%
SY 2021-22N/A32.1%32.8%28.7%

How to read these scores

What is STAAR?
STAAR (the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) is the annual statewide test used by all Texas public schools. Students in grades 3 through 8 take it in reading and math, with science added in grades 5 and 8 and social studies in grade 8. High school students take End-of-Course (EOC) STAAR exams in Algebra I, English I, English II, Biology, and U.S. History.
What does "% Meets Grade Level or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores reached or exceeded the "Meets Grade Level" threshold on the test. Texas reports four performance levels (Did Not Meet, Approaches, Meets, Masters). "Meets" and above means the student is performing at grade level or above. A higher number is better.
What does 98.0% mean for Reading at JAMES M STEELE EARLY COLLEGE H S?
It means about 98.0 percent of students tested at JAMES M STEELE EARLY COLLEGE H S performed at grade level or above on the STAAR Reading test in 2023-24. The statewide average for Texas that year was 51.8%. 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 Texas, 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?
Texas Education Agency, State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR), via the Texas Academic Performance Report (TAPR). School-level All Students subgroup. Headline metric is the cumulative "Meets Grade Level or Above" rate.
How often is it updated?
STAAR 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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