Canton Students Score Higher Than Average On MCAS Test

CANTON, MA — Massachusetts has released results of the latest MCAS test, which is used by the state as a guide to measure students' academic performance. Students in the Canton School District did better than the state average in all grades and subjects, according to results released Tuesday.

In math, 75 percent of 10th grade students in Canton met or exceeded expectations on the test, compared to the state average of 59 percent. For third- to eighth-grade students in the Canton School District, 62 percent met or exceeded expectations in math, again higher than the state average of 49 percent.

In 10th grade, 78 percent of Canton students met or exceeded expectations in math, compared to the 61-percent state average. In Canton's grades three through eight, 65 percent of students at least met expectations, as opposed to the 52-percent state average.

In science, too, the Canton School District did better than the state average during this year's testing, according to the results released Tuesday. Eighty-eight percent of Canton's 10th-graders met or exceeded science expectations in the MCAS test this year, compared to the 74-percent state average. And 57 percent of Canton students in grades five and eight — the only grades tested in science among the lower grade levels — met or exceeded expectations this year, compared to the state average of 48 percent.