These students did not meet the required standards of the English Language Arts portion of the MCAS, compared to the 17% who did.
The number of Lawrence Public Schools District students who failed their English Language Arts assessments fell by 4.1% from the previous school year.
Lawrence Public Schools District roughly covers schools within Essex County and has a main office in Lawrence.
In the 2021-22 school year, 400,101 students took the English Language Arts test in Massachusetts with 82% 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 ranks 5th in the ranking of the best and worst public schools from Scholaroo. School systems were evaluated on three factors — student achievement, student safety, and the quality of school education.
| School Name | Students who did not meet met standards (%) |
|---|---|
| Alexander B. Bruce School | 83% |
| Arlington Middle School | 89% |
| Community Day Arlington School | 90% |
| Edward F. Parthum School | 77% |
| Emily G. Wetherbee School | 83% |
| Francis M. Leahy School | 88% |
| Frost Middle School | 73% |
| Gerard A. Guilmette School | 90% |
| Guilmette Middle School | 81% |
| John K. Tarbox School | 85% |
| Oliver Partnership School | 93% |
| Parthum Middle School | 72% |
| Robert Frost School | 80% |
| School for Exceptional Studies | 100% |
| South Lawrence East Elementary School | 79% |
| Spark Academy | 76% |
| UP Academy Leonard Middle School | 83% |
| UP Academy Oliver Middle School | 84% |
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