These students did not meet the required standards of the English Language Arts portion of the MCAS, compared to the 56% who did.
The number of Middleton School District students who failed their English Language Arts assessments rose by 37.3% from the previous school year.
Middleton School District roughly covers schools within Essex County and has a main office in Boxford.
In the 2021-22 school year, 400,101 students took the English Language Arts test in Massachusetts with 44% students failing, 10.1% more than the year before.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's 2022 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), the average scale score for grade 10 English Language Arts was 503, which met the expectation level, while the average scale score for grade 10 Science was 499, which only partially met the expectation level.
Massachusetts ranks 5th in the ranking of the best and worst public schools from Scholaroo. School systems were evaluated on three factors — student achievement, student safety, and the quality of school education.
| School Name | Students who did not meet met standards (%) |
|---|---|
| Howe-Manning School | 43% |
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