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Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation · Lynchburg, VA
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SOL, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Passing.
English: Reading
57.0%
State avg 74.2%
District avg 59.4%
County avg 59.4%
-2.0pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
53.0%
State avg 72.7%
District avg 53.4%
County avg 53.4%
-4.0pp since 2022-23
Science
60.0%
State avg 71.4%
District avg 59.7%
County avg 59.7%
+2.0pp since 2022-23
History & Social Sciences
50.0%
State avg 66.8%
District avg 51.9%
County avg 51.9%
-19.0pp since 2022-23

What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 53 of 100 do math at grade level, about 60 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 50 of 100 are at grade level in social studies. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74, 73, 71, and 67. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 4 points, science scores are up about 2 points, and social studies scores are down about 19 points.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
57.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.6%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.2pp
below demographic expectation

What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

3-year history

All grades, all students. Paul Laurence Dunbar   Virginia avg

English: Reading

73592022-2373602023-2474572024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2557.0%59.4%59.4%74.2%
SY 2023-2460.0%60.5%60.5%73.2%
SY 2022-2359.0%59.5%59.5%72.8%

Mathematics

69572022-2371572023-2473532024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2553.0%53.4%53.4%72.7%
SY 2023-2457.0%53.3%53.3%71.2%
SY 2022-2357.0%50.6%50.6%69.3%

Science

67582022-2369612023-2471602024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2560.0%59.7%59.7%71.4%
SY 2023-2461.0%56.5%56.5%68.7%
SY 2022-2358.0%54.5%54.5%66.8%

History & Social Sciences

66692022-2365622023-2467502024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2550.0%51.9%51.9%66.8%
SY 2023-2462.0%50.6%50.6%65.5%
SY 2022-2369.0%55.2%55.2%65.6%

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How to read these scores

What is SOL?
Virginia public-school students take Standards of Learning (SOL) tests each spring in Reading, Math, Science, and History/Social Sciences (grades 3-8 + high-school End-of-Course exams). SOL uses 4 performance levels — students at Pass Proficient or Pass Advanced are counted as passing.
What does "% Passing" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at "Pass Proficient" or "Pass Advanced" on the SOL — the top 2 of 4 performance levels (Fail Below Basic, Fail Basic, Pass Proficient, Pass Advanced). Passing means the student demonstrated grade-level mastery. A higher number is better.
What does 57.0% mean for English: Reading at Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation?
It means about 57.0 percent of students tested at Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation performed at grade level or above on the SOL English: Reading test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Virginia that year was 74.2%. 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 Virginia, 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?
Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), Standards of Learning (SOL) assessments. School-level Pass Rate by subject from the VDOE School Subject-Area report. Headline metric is the cumulative "Pass" rate (Pass Proficient + Pass Advanced, top 2 of 4 SOL performance levels).
How often is it updated?
SOL 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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