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Appendix A: Effective and Noteworthy School Districts on the 2000 MCAS

Appendix B: Repeaters in 1999 and 2000

Appendix C: Over-performing School Districts on the 1998-2000 MCAS

Appendix D: School Districts that Most Over-performed Their Demography

Appendix E: Demographically-Challenged School Districts that Over-performed on the 1998-2000 MCAS

Appendix F: Deriving the Effectiveness Index

Grade 8 Repeaters : Effective and Noteworthy
School Districts on both the 1999 and 2000 MCAS

	ELA 8 COMBINED OVERSCORE 99-00		Math 8 COMBINED OVERSCORE 99-00
Abington	11	Bedford	5
Bedford	7	Beverly	11
Belchertown	7	Carver	7
Berkshire Hills	8	Chatham	8
Berlin Boylston	5	Chelsea	9
Braintree	9	Frontier	11
Brookline	8	Gardner	11
Central Berkshire	6	Grafton	11
Chelsea	4	Greenfield	9
Clinton	6	Hadley	11
Danvers	4	Hampshire	6
East Longmeadow	9	Harvard	9
Edgartown	4	Ipswich	6
Frontier	8	Lawrence	18
Gardner	9	Lexington	14
Harvard	8	Ludlow	10
Lenox	7	Medway	6
Medfield	7	Newburyport	9
Needham	5	Newton	9
North Reading	7	Nashoba	15
Northampton	7	Newton	9
Northborough	5	Northampton	6
Norton	5	Northborough	9
Quabbin	8	Peabody	7
Quincy	3	Pentucket Regional	7
Sandwich	8	Quabbin	8
Southbridge	4	Sandwich	11
Stoneham	11	Stoneham	12
Tyngsborough	10	Sutton	11
Uxbridge	5	Tantasqua	12
Wachusett Reg	3	Tyngsborough	16
Westborough	7	Wachusett Reg	10
		West Bridgewater	12
		Westborough	13
		Westford	11

	Science 8 COMBINED OVERSCORE 99-00		Total 8 COMBINED OVERSCORE 99-00
Amherst Pelham	11	Abington	14
Bedford	15	Amherst Pelham	27
Belchertown	10	Bedford	34
Belmont	9	Belchertown	22
Berkley	5	Berkshire Hills	20
Berkshire Hills	8	Berlin Boylston	21
Berlin Boylston	10	Braintree	21
Braintree	5	Brookline	25
Brookline	10	Carver	20
Concord	6	Chelsea	20
East Longmeadow	10	East Longmeadow	20
Gardner	10	Frontier	24
Hampden Wilbraham	6	Gardner	28
Harvard	14	Hadley	26
Hingham	6	Harvard	41
Lawrence	8	Lawrence	27
Leicester	10	Leicester	16
Longmeadow	6	Lexington	13
Masconomet	12	Ludlow	13
Medway	10	Medway	22
Monson	12	Newton	14
Nantucket	6	North Reading	28
North Reading	13	Northampton	24
Northampton	11	Peabody	17
Norwood	7	Pentucket Regional	21
Pentucket Regional	9	Quabbin	29
Quabbin	12	Sandwich	31
Sandwich	12	Stoneham	40
Stoneham	17	Sutton	13
Tantasqua	6	Tantasqua	21
Tyngsborough	18	Tyngsborough	44
West Bridgewater	9	Uxbridge	13
Westborough	20	Wachusett Reg	18
		West Bridgewater	25
		Westborough	40
		Westford	18

* Key: COMBINED OVERSCORE 99-00 is the sum of the district's Overscores on both the 1999 and 2000 MCAS. Overscore is the difference between the demographically-predicted score and the actual district MCAS score. The higher the Combined Overscore, the more a district exceeded its demographic characteristics. For example, ELA4 99-00 is the combined score for English Language Arts for Grade 4 or the 1999 and 2000 MCAS; M4 99-00 is Math for Grade 4 , and such.