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APPENDIX A: Effective and Noteworthy
School Districts on the 2000
The following charts list the top sixty
districts in terms of their score on the Effectiveness
Index. The Effectiveness Index is the difference between
the likely score based on a district's demography and
the district's actual score on the MCAS. Districts are
listed from higher to lower Effectiveness Indexes.
When analyzing anything about student
performance, it is important to understand that many
Massachusetts communities are part of regional school
districts and that, depending on grade level, a community's
school district may change. Thus, the Grade 4 results
reflect evaluating a different set of school districts
than do the Grade 8 results and do the Grade 10 results.
The following charts represent 97% of the state's students.
Due to small sample size, those districts where fewer
than 50 students took the MCAS are not included.
There are 351 communities in Massachusetts.
There are 204 school districts whose children took MCAS
tests in all three grades. The other communities are
part of various regional school districts. Thus, the
only way to compare total MCAS score is to limit that
analysis to the 204 systems whose children in fact took
MCAS tests at all three grade levels, Grades 4, 8, and
10.
Listings are provided for the following
categories:
School Districts (including Regional
Districts) for each grade level;
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