2014-2024 MISSOURI K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOL MAP & EOC SCORE DATA DEMONSTRATES ACADEMIC DECLINE IN ST. LOUIS COUNTY

What is MAP and EOC Score Data?

The state of Missouri tests Public and Charter school students every year. Here is what the Missouri Department of Elementary Education (DESE) have on their site to describe MAP testing.

“The Missouri Assessment Program includes a set of yearly standards-based assessments that measure specific skills defined for each grade or content, designed to measure students’ progress toward mastery of the Show-Me Standards, which are the educational standards in Missouri.

State assessments help districts determine if students have acquired the skills and knowledge described in Missouri’s Learning Standards (MLS). The assessments yield information on academic achievement at the student, class, school, district, and state levels. This information helps to diagnose individual student strengths and weaknesses in relation to the instruction of the MLS, and to gauge the overall quality of education throughout Missouri.”

We requested and received the data in an excel spreadsheet and use a graphing software to give a visual representation of how Districts are performing.

Why MAP and EOC?

MAP and EOC tests are the state’s objective measure of whether or not students have learned what the state says they’re supposed to know by the end of that grade. MAP stands for Missouri Assessment Program and is for grades 3-8.

EOC stands for “End of Course” and these are tests taken at the end of high school courses. The EOC abbreviations for the courses are:

A1: Algebra 1

A2: Algebra 2

E1: English 1

E2: English 2

B1:Biology 1

How to View District Data by Grade Level and Content Area

Select the District, Content Area, and Grade to produce an understandable graph of academic performance for a St. Louis County School District. Use the drop down menu under District on this web page. Then, select the Content Area and select the grade.

The graphs will show the percentage of all students that are grade level proficient in the chosen school district, content area, and grade. The data from the state of Missouri demonstrates, in the majority of cases, a decline in the percentage of students that are grade level proficient in St. Louis County Public Schools. It therefore makes sense for the Missouri government to fund school choice for St. Louis County parents to stop K-12 academic decline.