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Highland Elementary · Lake Stevens, WA
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Met or Exceeded Standard.
English Language Arts
66.2%
State avg 58.4%
District avg 63.5%
County avg 60.3%
-3.9pp since 2014-15
Mathematics
61.6%
State avg 51.2%
District avg 54.1%
County avg 52.8%
-2.6pp since 2014-15
Science
71.4%
State avg 52.2%
District avg 56.1%
County avg 54.2%

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.0%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.6pp
above demographic expectation
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

By grade, SY 2024-25

School score vs state average per tested grade.
GradeEnglish Language ArtsMathematicsScience
SchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten testedSchoolStaten tested
Grade 371.6%56.8%7365.7%59.6%67N/AN/AN/A
Grade 464.8%58.1%5959.3%57.8%54N/AN/AN/A
Grade 561.5%60.9%5659.3%52.9%5471.4%59.3%65

9-year history

All grades, all students. Highland   Washington avg

English Language Arts

49702014-1550742015-1649752016-1758792017-1858712018-1950612021-2249612022-2350612023-2458662024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2566.2%63.5%60.3%58.4%
SY 2023-2460.6%61.1%52.7%49.5%
SY 2022-2360.6%61.5%52.3%49.0%
SY 2021-2261.0%61.0%52.5%49.6%
SY 2018-1971.2%67.8%61.0%57.9%
SY 2017-1878.6%68.9%61.0%57.8%
SY 2016-1775.3%64.0%52.2%49.3%
SY 2015-1674.2%62.4%53.4%50.3%
SY 2014-1570.1%61.8%51.3%49.1%

Mathematics

44642014-1547692015-1646712016-1748722017-1848642018-1938522021-2239592022-2340552023-2451622024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2561.6%54.1%52.8%51.2%
SY 2023-2455.3%52.6%44.0%40.4%
SY 2022-2359.3%51.6%42.5%39.2%
SY 2021-2251.8%49.1%41.2%38.0%
SY 2018-1963.5%55.7%50.2%47.7%
SY 2017-1872.0%59.7%51.0%47.9%
SY 2016-1771.2%55.6%48.5%45.8%
SY 2015-1669.3%57.1%49.1%46.8%
SY 2014-1564.2%55.4%46.9%44.0%

Science

50672017-1849642018-1945552021-2245672022-2347582023-2452712024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2571.4%56.1%54.2%52.2%
SY 2023-2458.0%66.3%51.3%47.1%
SY 2022-2366.7%61.1%48.1%45.1%
SY 2021-2255.0%62.8%47.4%44.8%
SY 2018-1964.2%64.4%51.2%49.1%
SY 2017-1867.4%61.9%51.3%49.6%
SY 2016-17N/AN/AN/AN/A
SY 2015-16N/AN/AN/AN/A
SY 2014-15N/AN/AN/AN/A

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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 66.2% mean for English Language Arts at Highland Elementary?
It means about 66.2 percent of students tested at Highland Elementary performed at grade level or above on the Smarter Balanced + WCAS English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Washington that year was 58.4%. 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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