2008 Saint Louis County MAP Score Summary by District
For some reason every source makes it very difficult to retrieve MAP score data
for easy comparison between districts. Why is that? So here is my chart with
2008 numbers straight from the Post-Dispatch
online. Here you can click any column to sort by that column.
District |
3C |
3M |
4C |
4M |
5C |
5M |
6C |
6M |
7C |
7M |
8C |
8M |
10M |
11C | |
ET |
MT |
ST |
CT |
---|
Brentwood | 71.2 |
69.5 |
77.2 |
78.9 |
66.7 |
71.4 |
57.7 |
71.2 |
57.6 |
60.6 |
67.6 |
69.2 |
66.1 |
62.3 |
|
434.9 |
383.9 |
128.4 |
1204.0
|
---|
Clayton | 69.2 |
65.9 |
71.4 |
69.2 |
68.6 |
70.6 |
72.7 |
72.2 |
74.2 |
65.1 |
68.2 |
66.9 |
69.8 |
65.5 |
|
414.9 |
419.3 |
135.3 |
1240.1
|
---|
Webster | 68.8 |
71.0 |
63.3 |
62.7 |
71.0 |
66.0 |
66.2 |
65.0 |
65.8 |
70.0 |
60.7 |
60.8 |
56.4 |
59.3 |
|
402.8 |
388.5 |
115.7 |
1138.4
|
---|
Ladue | 66.3 |
64.1 |
63.1 |
64.7 |
78.1 |
69.8 |
71.8 |
71.0 |
70.3 |
71.6 |
67.0 |
75.0 |
63.5 |
60.0 |
|
406.1 |
426.7 |
123.5 |
1203.3
|
---|
Kirkwood | 65.6 |
62.8 |
67.0 |
61.6 |
75.1 |
69.4 |
69.9 |
74.1 |
64.1 |
62.3 |
67.2 |
66.3 |
58.1 |
62.3 |
|
401.5 |
403.9 |
120.4 |
1166.6
|
---|
Rockwood | 64.5 |
65.7 |
64.8 |
65.6 |
70.6 |
65.6 |
62.5 |
63.4 |
66.9 |
61.5 |
63.3 |
60.0 |
61.1 |
61.2 |
|
396.8 |
377.6 |
122.3 |
1141.3
|
---|
Lindbergh | 61.0 |
64.1 |
65.5 |
71.0 |
78.0 |
78.0 |
60.5 |
65.9 |
58.2 |
68.3 |
62.7 |
56.0 |
64.5 |
63.1 |
|
417.6 |
371.6 |
127.6 |
1172.0
|
---|
Parkway | 55.8 |
59.8 |
55.3 |
50.7 |
63.7 |
56.8 |
57.0 |
60.5 |
61.5 |
59.7 |
58.5 |
58.7 |
56.3 |
58.8 |
|
342.1 |
355.9 |
115.1 |
1043.3
|
---|
Pattonville | 51.8 |
60.5 |
56.9 |
60.8 |
59.7 |
58.4 |
49.7 |
57.3 |
50.6 |
53.3 |
52.0 |
48.4 |
49.6 |
52.6 |
|
348.1 |
311.3 |
102.2 |
966.0
|
---|
Maplewood/RH | 48.7 |
52.0 |
59.1 |
43.8 |
50.7 |
41.6 |
43.3 |
41.9 |
40.8 |
40.7 |
33.3 |
29.1 |
46.7 |
25.0 |
|
295.9 |
229.1 |
71.7 |
740.1
|
---|
Affton | 48.5 |
59.6 |
50.6 |
55.2 |
55.3 |
61.5 |
45.3 |
49.7 |
39.8 |
42.9 |
38.8 |
42.5 |
33.5 |
45.8 |
|
330.7 |
259.0 |
79.3 |
827.6
|
---|
Mehlville | 47.8 |
50.8 |
50.7 |
55.1 |
57.6 |
57.6 |
48.2 |
62.6 |
54.2 |
59.4 |
47.7 |
52.9 |
45.7 |
46.7 |
|
319.6 |
325.0 |
92.4 |
921.8
|
---|
County Ave | 47.8 |
49.4 |
48.1 |
46.7 |
54.3 |
50.4 |
47.3 |
50.5 |
46.2 |
44.3 |
43.2 |
40.9 |
40.7 |
44.8 |
|
296.7 |
272.4 |
85.5 |
825.6
|
---|
Valley Park | 44.9 |
45.5 |
47.5 |
44.9 |
60.0 |
64.6 |
36.7 |
44.6 |
46.4 |
33.8 |
42.9 |
42.4 |
57.1 |
34.6 |
|
307.4 |
246.8 |
91.7 |
829.3
|
---|
Hancock Place | 39.8 |
46.0 |
35.3 |
41.4 |
43.9 |
43.8 |
42.0 |
45.3 |
35.7 |
32.3 |
32.9 |
27.2 |
24.5 |
27.4 |
|
250.2 |
215.4 |
51.9 |
621.3
|
---|
Ferguson/Flor | 38.1 |
32.7 |
42.9 |
33.4 |
39.3 |
31.3 |
36.8 |
37.2 |
28.5 |
27.9 |
31.6 |
27.6 |
20.8 |
23.6 |
|
217.7 |
189.6 |
44.4 |
540.5
|
---|
Hazelwood | 37.5 |
36.8 |
34.9 |
32.0 |
42.6 |
36.3 |
35.4 |
37.6 |
30.4 |
25.2 |
25.1 |
22.2 |
20.2 |
31.0 |
|
220.1 |
175.9 |
51.2 |
549.6
|
---|
Bayless | 37.5 |
52.7 |
34.3 |
28.7 |
41.9 |
45.7 |
38.5 |
39.3 |
46.9 |
39.8 |
30.7 |
42.1 |
40.2 |
33.6 |
|
240.8 |
237.3 |
73.8 |
699.5
|
---|
Univers City | 35.3 |
39.0 |
39.5 |
37.6 |
45.8 |
40.0 |
39.6 |
37.0 |
26.4 |
27.3 |
28.6 |
23.3 |
17.3 |
22.0 |
|
237.2 |
182.2 |
39.3 |
537.3
|
---|
Jennings | 29.2 |
29.8 |
26.2 |
22.5 |
22.7 |
27.7 |
22.2 |
24.8 |
22.8 |
14.1 |
16.8 |
15.6 |
19.1 |
22.5 |
|
158.1 |
116.3 |
41.6 |
399.2
|
---|
Wellston | 2.8 |
2.8 |
12.2 |
8.2 |
16.7 |
16.6 |
7.3 |
12.2 |
4.1 |
4.0 |
18.4 |
8.2 |
2.7 |
2.6 |
|
59.3 |
54.2 |
5.3 |
129.4
|
---|
Ritenour | 27.8 |
36.8 |
33.2 |
37.4 |
41.8 |
43.3 |
31.7 |
39.0 |
35.0 |
30.3 |
27.3 |
22.0 |
24.4 |
38.1 |
|
220.3 |
185.3 |
62.5 |
593.1
|
---|
Normandy | 26.7 |
24.2 |
19.0 |
12.0 |
23.2 |
14.9 |
21.9 |
23.5 |
12.5 |
11.6 |
13.1 |
3.9 |
9.6 |
14.8 |
|
120.0 |
86.5 |
24.4 |
279.7
|
---|
Riverview G | 22.4 |
25.5 |
23.7 |
22.2 |
25.7 |
23.5 |
23.3 |
23.3 |
19.2 |
13.5 |
17.1 |
7.0 |
9.4 |
15.6 |
|
143.0 |
103.4 |
25.0 |
321.4
|
---|
The numbers listed are the percentage of students who were proficient or advanced in each grade level (3 to 11) in each subject
(C = communications arts, M = mathematics). ET is the total for all precentages for elementary grades (3 to 5), MT is the total for all percentages for middle school grades (6 to 8), and ST is the total for all percentages for senior high grades 10 and 11. CT adds all the grades together
but triples the weight for the senior high percentages since there are only
two of them.
One interesting thing I noticed is that hardly any districts are near "average", most are either
considerably above average or considerably below average.
My Commentary on the Numbers
Note that these
numbers do not necessarily show which schools are "better", in reality
they show what
schools are attended by top performing students. Over St. Louis County as a
whole, about 40% to 50% of the students test at a "proficient" level or
higher. However,
within districts this percentage varies significantly. In some districts
60% to over 70% of students tests as proficient or better, yet in other
districts less than 1 out of 4 students tests at the same level. What this
truly shows, therefore, is what school districts attract top students, and these
tend to be the more affluent districts one would expect (Clayton, Ladue,
Brentwood, Kirkwood, Rockwood, Lindbergh, Parkway, Webster etc.) Good students want to
go to school with other good students, so they all gravitate to the same top
districts. The demand for housing in that area drives up real estate prices
in those districts which then creates more tax dollars for the schools.
That elevated population of good students plus the increased tax revenue
then allows those more desirable districts
to offer more advanced classes and programs that could never be filled in
districts with a lower proportion of good students. So it is a viscious cycle,
the good schools attract all the good students which only make their test
scores (and housing prices) higher, and the other districts cannot compete.