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Test scores

Smarter Balanced + WCAS, SY 2022-23

All grades, all students. % Met or Exceeded Standard.
English Language Arts
23.9%
State avg 49.0%
District avg 60.3%
County avg 58.1%
+16.8pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
9.4%
State avg 39.2%
District avg 52.4%
County avg 50.0%
+4.8pp since 2021-22
Science
9.5%
State avg 45.1%
District avg 54.4%
County avg 52.3%
+3.5pp since 2021-22

BeatsExpectations

Not computed for this school
BeatsExpectations is not computed for specialized-population schools (schools for the deaf or blind, therapeutic and behavioral-health placements, juvenile-justice and alternative-education settings, and similar). State ELA/Math proficiency rates are not a comparable metric for these populations, so a demographically-adjusted residual against general-enrollment peers would be misleading. About the methodology →

2-year history

All grades, all students. Cascade Parent Partnership Program   Washington avg

English Language Arts

5072021-2249242022-23
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2022-2323.9%60.3%58.1%49.0%
SY 2021-227.1%59.1%58.1%49.6%

Mathematics

3852021-223992022-23
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2022-239.4%52.4%50.0%39.2%
SY 2021-224.6%49.6%48.6%38.0%

Science

4562021-224592022-23
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2022-239.5%54.4%52.3%45.1%
SY 2021-225.9%51.1%51.7%44.8%

How to read these scores

What is Smarter Balanced + WCAS?
Washington public-school students in grades 3 through 8 plus grade 10 take the Smarter Balanced (SBAC) assessments in English Language Arts and Math each spring. The Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS) is given at grades 5, 8, and 11.
What does "% Met or Exceeded Standard" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school whose scores were rated Level 3 or Level 4 on the test. Smarter Balanced reports four performance levels; Level 3 ("Met Standard") and Level 4 ("Exceeded Standard") signal the student is performing at grade level or above. A higher number is better.
What does 23.9% mean for English Language Arts at Cascade Parent Partnership Program?
It means about 23.9 percent of students tested at Cascade Parent Partnership Program performed at grade level or above on the Smarter Balanced + WCAS English Language Arts test in 2022-23. The statewide average for Washington that year was 49.0%. 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 Washington, 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?
Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), Report Card Assessment Data on data.wa.gov. Smarter Balanced (SBAC) ELA + Math (grades 3-8 + 10/11), Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS) at grades 5, 8, 11. Headline metric is the cumulative Level 3 + Level 4 rate (Smarter Balanced "Met or Exceeded Standard").
How often is it updated?
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 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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