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In 2021-22 school year 79% of Lynn Public Schools District students failed the English portion of MCAS

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Of the 6,757 students who took part in the MCAS, 79% did not meet the testing standard in the 2021-22 school year, according to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

These students did not meet the required standards of the English Language Arts portion of the MCAS, compared to the 21% who did.

The number of Lynn Public Schools District students who failed their English Language Arts assessments rose by 2.7% from the previous school year.

Lynn Public Schools District roughly covers schools within Essex County and has a main office in Lynn.

In the 2021-22 school year, 400,101 students took the English Language Arts test in Massachusetts with 79% 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.

Lynn Public Schools District's Students Proficiency in English Language Arts Over the Years
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Lynn Public Schools District Students who Met or Exceeded Academic Standards in English Language Arts During 2021-22 School Year
School NameStudents who did not meet met standards (%)
A. Drewicz Elementary School85%
Aborn School62%
Breed Middle School76%
Brickett Elementary School85%
Capt. William G. Shoemaker School68%
Cobbet Elementary School87%
E. J. Harrington School85%
Edward A. Sisson School70%
Fecteau-Leary Junior/Senior High School100%
Hood School86%
Ingalls School91%
Julia F. Callahan School72%
Lincoln-Thomson School77%
Lynn Vocational Technical Institute School79%
Lynn Woods School52%
Pickering Middle School73%
Robert L. Ford School86%
Sewell-Anderson School63%
Thurgood Marshall Middle School80%
Tracy School85%
Washington Elementary School88%
William R. Fallon School75%
Wm. P. Connery School83%

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