St Cloud Test Score Data

These tables compare St.  Cloud School Ditrict's students who are non-special education, non-free and reduced lunch, students.  I compiled this data, because the Minnesota Department of Education does not directly report this data.   You can find the scores of all sorts of groups disaggregated, but if you want these scores, you have to engage in a lengthy process of calculation, which I performed using xcel spreadsheets.

Why have I compiled this information.  First, because when the media, pundits, and citizens look at the annual data dump from the MDE, they compare the MCA-Proficiency rates, not realizing that different school districts have very different percentages of students in subgroups that have lower test proficiency rates.  That creates the false impression that one school district is doing more poorly than another, even if that is not true.   Sometimes advantaged students migrate out of  districts with higher percentages of disadvantaged students because they wrongly believe that the lower district rates are a sign that advantaged students can't thrive there.   So the tables below show that, despite what has been reported in the media, students without disadvantages that are statistically associated with reduced test scores are performing at the same rate as the state at large.

MCA-Comparisons for students not on free and reduced Lunch and not Special Education

	White-Non Free Red L Non Special Ed				Black Non-Free Red L Non Special Ed
		Science	MCA-III		Science	MCA-III
		742	State		742	State
		%Prof	%Prof		%Prof	%Prof
	2012	61.5%	65.9%	2012	35.3%	40.2%
	2013	64.0%	67.9%	2013	20.0%	45.6%
	2014	68.5%	69.4%	2014	34.5%	44.6%
	2015	69.8%	70.0%	2015	70.6%	48.2%
	White	Math MCA-III			Math MCA-III		Black
		742	State		742	State
	2011	76.0%	73.5%	2011	52.3%	51.3%
	2012	83.7%	81.0%	2012	68.2%	57.8%
	2013	79.7%	78.6%	2013	30.0%	57.2%
	2014	76.7%	77.3%	2014	45.5%	52.6%
	2015	77.1%	77.5%	2015	61.5%	55.8%
	White	Reading	MCA-III		Reading	MCA-III	Black
		742	State		742	State
	2013	70.41%	74.0%	2013	45.5%	52.3%
	2014	72.83%	75.4%	2014	50.8%	52.6%
	2015	74.63%	76.7%	2015	56.1%	55.2%

Proficiency Rates on MCA-III for Free and Reduced Lunch Non-ELL Black Students

	Percent Proficient MCA-III Reading
	Black, Non-ELL Free Reduced Lunch
Year	OSSEO	MSP	St Paul	742	Talahi
2013	31.1%	18.8%	23.5%	23.0%	15.7%
2014	31.8%	21.7%	23.0%	28.2%	28.4%
2015	33.8%	21.8%	22.7%	31.7%	42.4%