School Performance

The chart on this webpage presents Anne Arundel County Public School results on the 2005 Maryland State Assessment. The numbers below are drawn directly from the AACPS website.

Schools are grouped by feeder system, and, within each feeder system, by school level. Elementary Schools are shown in the first two columns, Middle Schools in the third, and High Schools in the fourth.

Each elementary and middle school has two percentages associated with it. The first number represents Reading Proficiency, the percent of all those tested who scored Proficient or better. The second represents Math Proficiency.

The AACPS website showed duplicate Reading and Math scores for five elementary schools. This is undoubtedly a clerical error, but I left it in.

All twelve high schools were shown with two scores, but in every case, the scores were identical. I'm not sure which score is truly represented - math or reading - but I decided to show a single score for each school.

The color coding helps you see at a glance where schools rank. White on red means the school's lowest score was below 60%. Boxed red means the lowest score was below 80%. Orange means the lowest score is below 90%. And teal means both scores are 90% or better.

As you'll see, fewer than a fifth of all Anne Arundel County schools succeed in cracking the 90% level on both tests. Middle schools and high schools are particulary weak. The conclusion I draw from this? Anne Arundel County has yet to develop a strategy that assures success to all its students.