SOL, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Passing.English: Reading
38.0%
State avg 74.2%
District avg 62.6%
County avg 62.6%
+7.0pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
25.0%
State avg 72.7%
District avg 57.4%
County avg 57.4%
+6.0pp since 2022-23
Science
27.0%
State avg 71.4%
District avg 60.8%
County avg 60.8%
-6.0pp since 2022-23
History & Social Sciences
35.0%
State avg 66.8%
District avg 51.4%
County avg 51.4%
-2.0pp since 2022-23
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 25 of 100 do math at grade level, about 27 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 35 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 up about 7 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 6 points, science scores are down about 6 points, and social studies scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
62.7%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-35.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for Virginia 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 →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 38.0% mean for English: Reading at Ruffner School?
It means about 38.0 percent of students tested at Ruffner School 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.
