These students did not meet the required standards of the English Language Arts portion of the MCAS, compared to the 51% who did.
The number of Burlington Public Schools District students who failed their English Language Arts assessments rose by 16% from the previous school year.
Burlington Public Schools District roughly covers schools within Middlesex County and has a main office in Burlington.
In the 2021-22 school year, 400,101 students took the English Language Arts test in Massachusetts with 49% 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 students performed better than most of their peers in other states, but their own average scores on a national assessment dropped from 2019 levels.
| School Name | Students who did not meet met standards (%) |
|---|---|
| Fox Hill School | 51% |
| Francis Wyman Elementary School | 43% |
| Marshall Simonds Middle School | 48% |
| Memorial School | 52% |
| Pine Glen Elementary School | 55% |
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