Natick MCAS 2017 Scores: 53 Percent Are 'Advanced' In Math

NATICK, MA—This year's MCAS procedure is confusing at best. To read up on all the changes, click here.

In short, a "new" MCAS test was administered to public school students in grades 3-8. Among the changes are a new scoring system that says whether students were exceeding, meeting, partially meeting, or not meeting expectations.

The "old" MCAS was taken by 10th grade students. The scoring system graded students as advanced, proficient, needs improvement, or warning/failing.

The subjects were math, English, and science. The science portion was only administered to students in grades 5, 8, and 10.

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For Natick, you can see how students in grades 3-8 did by visiting The Boston Globe's database here. Click what grade and subject you want, and type "Natick" into the search bar.

The 10th grade numbers are a bit easier to digest. Here is the percentage of students among Natick High School 10th graders who scored advanced, proficient, needs improvement, and warning/failing.

• In math, there were 67 advanced, 23 proficient, 9 needs improvement and 2 warning/failing. That is generally even with last year's numbers, with 2 percent more students scoring proficient.
• In English, there were 57 advanced, 38 proficient, 3 needs improvement and 3 warning/failing. That is a 5 percent boost in students scoring proficient.
• In science, there were 50 advanced, 42 proficient, 7 needs improvement and 1 warning/failing. That is an impressive 11 percent boost in advanced scoring. Four percent of that increase came from the group which formerly needed improvement.

State averages in percentages:

• Math: 53 advanced, 26 proficient, 14 needs improvement and 8 warning/failing
• English: 44 advanced, 47 proficient, 6 needs improvement and 3 warning/failing
• Science: 32 advanced, 42 proficient, 21 needs improvement and 5 warning/failing

Mike Carraggi, Patch staff, contributed to this report

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