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Another View on Key Metrics
ACPS Celebrates: SOL Pass Rates
Source: ACPS 2024 State of the Division
Included in Report, not in PPT
Another View: SOL Pass Rates
| Reading | Writing | Math | Science | History/SS |
All Students | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
White | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Asian | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ |
Black | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
Multi-Race | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ |
Hispanic / Latino | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ |
English Learners | ✔ | ✘ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Disabilities | ✘ | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ | ✔ |
ACPS students scored lower than state average in most categories, esp. students who depend most on schools.
Scoring higher than state average isn’t a “win” when failure rates are 40-60%.
Source: ACPS 2024 Key Metrics Data
ACPS Celebrates: Reading
Source: ACPS 2024 State of the Division
Another View: Reading
Source: VDOE Learning Needs Dashboard – shows Black students, but similar rates for Hispanic, Economically-Disadvantaged, and Students with Disabilities.
Reading SOL scores not only show some of the widest opportunity gaps in the state…
But pass rates have actually declined post-pandemic in many schools,
Especially ACPS-designated “Transformation Schools”.
ACPS Celebrates: Early Reading
Source: ACPS 2024 State of the Division
“Percentage of students in high-risk bands decreased from fall to spring in grades 1-3.”
Source: ACPS 2024 State of the Division PPT
Another View: Early Reading
Title I
Families do celebrate the hard work of classroom teachers!
But, ACPS has concentrated poverty at a small number of elementary schools.
In these schools, most grade levels have 60-70% of students at “high-risk” of reading failure.
How can any teacher manage this?
Source: ACPS 2024 Key Metrics Data
ACPS Celebrates: Math
Source: ACPS 2024 State of the Division
Another View: Math
Source: Virginia School Quality Profiles
In ACPS, your student’s zip code & family income are highly-correlated with math outcomes.
Take 3rd grade milestone, for ex:
Only 42% of “Economically Disadvantaged” students passed the math SOLS?!
That’s much lower than across the state (57%) and MUCH lower than the ACPS average (69%).
Multiple ACPS schools are in the lowest 5-10% of all schools in the state for math scores.
ACPS Celebrates: Middle School
Source: ACPS 2024 State of the Division
Another View: Middle School
Source: ACPS 2024 Key Metrics Data
More middle schoolers are failing classes.
ACPS does fine with white students from families with not-low incomes… but everyone else, including students with disabilities, have higher failure rates.
At three middle schools, scores on both reading and math have continued to decline post-pandemic.
ACPS Celebrates: High School Graduation
Source: ACPS 2024 State of the Division
Another View: High School Graduation
ACPS Dropouts are higher than state average.
And Dropout rates are worse for many ACPS student groups.
Source: Virginia School Quality Profiles
| State | ACPS |
All | 4.5% | 4.8% |
Black | 5.2% | 5.7% |
Eco-Dis | 6.0% | 8.3% |
Hispanic | 10.2% | 14.0% |
ELs | 18.6% | 26.7% |
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