SOL, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Passing.English: Reading
90.0%
State avg 74.2%
District avg 81.6%
County avg 81.6%
+2.0pp since 2022-23
Mathematics
88.0%
State avg 72.7%
District avg 81.1%
County avg 81.1%
-2.0pp since 2022-23
Science
89.0%
State avg 71.4%
District avg 78.4%
County avg 78.4%
-6.0pp since 2022-23
History & Social Sciences
93.0%
State avg 66.8%
District avg 71.8%
County avg 71.8%
+14.0pp since 2022-23
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 88 of 100 do math at grade level, about 89 of 100 are at grade level in science, and about 93 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 2 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 2 points, science scores are down about 6 points, and social studies scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of VA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
89.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.3%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 89% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for Virginia 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 24 points, placing it in Virginia'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 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 90.0% mean for English: Reading at Southside Elementary?
It means about 90.0 percent of students tested at Southside Elementary 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.
