District-Wide:
• Every school in the District moved up in their overall school performance rankings relative to schools serving similar grades from 2013 to 2014, demonstrating growth among their students.
• Somerville has closed the state
science achievement gap (measured by CPI) by 52%, 61%, and 64% in grades 5, 8, and 10, respectively over the past 4 years.
• The District has nearly halved the state performance gap in Math in grade 5 since 2011, while doubling the percent of students scoring Advanced, from 12% in 2011 to 27% in 2014.
Argenziano School
• Grade 7 students had an ELA SGP of 78, and a CPI of 93.5
• 19-percentage point increase in students scoring Proficient/Advanced in grade 3 Math from 2013-2014 (33% P/A to 52% P/A)
• 14-percentage point increase in students scoring Proficient/Advanced in grade 5 Math from 2013-2014 (42% P/A to 56% P/A)
• Grade 5 Math CPI increased 17 points from 62 in 2011 to 79 in 2014; grade 5 ELA CPI increased 10 points from 69 in 2011 to 79 in 2014
Healey School
• Grade 6 students had a Math SGP of 91, up 18 percentage points from 2013 (73)
• Grade 6 students had an ELA SGP of 70, a 20-percentage point increase from 2013 (50)
• Percentage of grade 8 students scoring Proficient/Advanced in Science increased 27% from 2013-2014 (28% P/A in 2013 to 55% P/A in 2014)
• 38% of Healey grade 6 students scored Advanced in Math
Brown School
• Grade 6 students had a Math SGP of 81, an increase of 36 points over 2013 (45)
• Grade 3 ELA percentage of students scoring Proficient/Advanced improved 10 percentage points from 2013-2014 (78%-88%);
• 71% of all students scored
• Proficient/Advanced in Math in 2014
• 80% of all students scored Proficient/Advanced in ELA in 2014
East Somerville Community School
• Grade 8 students had an ELA SGP of 73.5
• Percentage of grade 5 students scoring Proficient/Advanced in ELA increased from 33% in 2013 to 51% in 2014
• 74% of grade 8 students scored Proficient/Advanced in 2014, level with 2013
• Percentage of students school-wide scoring Proficient/Advanced in ELA increased by 8% from 2013 (42%) to 2014 (50%)
Kennedy School
• Grade 7 students had an ELA SGP of 80
• Percentage of students school-wide scoring Proficient/Advanced in ELA has improved from 68% in 2013 to 70% in 2014
• Percentage of students in grade 3 scoring Proficient/Advanced in ELA increased by 12 percentage points, from 67% in 2013 to 79% in 2014
West Somerville School
• Math SGPs of 80.5 in grade 4, 94 in grade 5, 73 in grade 6, and 76 in grade 7
• 93% of grade 8 students scored Proficient/Advanced in ELA in 2014, up from 82% in 2013
• 35-percentage point increase in grade 4 students scoring Proficient/Advanced in Math from 2013-2014 (23%-58%)
• Percentage of grade 8 students scoring Proficient/Advanced in ELA has increased from 80% in 2011 to 93% in 2014
Winter Hill School
• Percentage of grade 8 students at the Winter Hill scoring Proficient/Advanced in ELA increased by 12 percentage points from 51% in 2013 to 63% in 2014
• Overall SGP in ELA increased from 47 in 2013 to 56 in 2014
• Percentage of students school-wide scoring Proficient/Advanced in ELA increased from 40% in 2013 to 46% in 2014
Somerville High School
• ELA SGP increased 7 percentage points from 68 in 2013 to 75 in 2014; has improved 35 percentage points since 2011 (40)
• Math SGP increased 11 percentage points from 55 in 2013 to 66 in 2014; has improved 20 percentage points since 2011 (46)
• Science CPI increased from 83.1 in 2013 to 87.7 in 2014
• In Science, closed the state CPI gap to less than half of what it was four years ago (4.2-1.5), to a current CPI of 86.4; 29% of students scored Advanced in Science in 2014, on par with the state
• 100% of FLEP students scored Proficient or Advanced in ELA; 75% of FLEP students scored Proficient or Advanced in Math
Definitions:
• 1SGP: Student Growth Percentile is “a measure of student progress that compares changes in a student’s MCAS scores to changes in MCAS scores of other students with similar scores in prior years.” (from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s MCAS Student Growth Percentiles: Interpretive Guide, March 2011)
• 2CPI: Composite Performance Index is a “100-point index that assigns 100, 75, 50, 25, or 0 points to each student participating in MCAS and MCAS-Alt tests based on their performance. The total points assigned to each student are added together and the sum is divided by the total number of students assessed. The result is a number between 0 and 100, which constitutes a district, school or group’s CPI for that subject and student group. The CPI is a measure of the extent to which students are progressing toward proficiency (a CPI of 100) in ELA and mathematics. CPIs are generated separately for ELA and mathematics, and at all levels – state, district, school, and student group.” (from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s 2010 Glossary of Accountability Reporting Terms)
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