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Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) and Lincoln-Sudbury (L-S) were set to present their 2023 MCAS reports during each district’s school committee meeting this week. SPS postponed until their next meeting, and Superintendent Crozier cited the need to make substantive changes to the SPS presentation. (01:48)
You can access the L-S presentation via the link on the November 8 agenda here.
And with that, let’s start at the end of the L-S presentation, where they summarized the results and emphasized that L-S is a high performing district:
During the meeting, they emphasized that L-S was one of 45 high schools in the state that was “meeting or exceeding targets.” They also provided comparisons to other high schools to demonstrate how L-S is performing similarly to its peer schools:
One area of discussion was on the disparities that emerge when sorting the data by student groups and demographics. One key point was to emphasize that certain groups of students sometimes contain a very small number of students or the number changes from year to year, so what looks like a big swing in results on a chart might just reflect a much smaller phenomenon happening among a very small group of students. L-S leadership was clear that this does not negate the need to address disparities, but they wanted the school committee to interpret the data accurately. You’ll want to refer to slides 22-28 for the relevant data. Here’s one example:
For a summary of various viewpoints and topics of debate on MCAS testing, WBUR has a great article that ran earlier this year.