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Mansfield School Officials Respond to MCAS Scores

Mansfield shows improvement in MCAS scores.

Mansfield's 2011 MCAS scores were released Tuesday with the schools showing improvement in all grades.

This year, students who received a proficient or higher rating in Mansfield for English Language Arts was 81-percent, increasing from last year by three percent. Mansfield's math this year was 69-percent, which was increased from 67-percent last year.

"I've not had time to really look at how we stack up against other schools," said Mansfield Schools Superintendent Brenda Hodges. "I've looked at where we stack up against ourselves and the state. We made significant gains at Jackson...the high school, but the Qualters School is where we really stayed pretty flat and the state actually made more gains in regards to us."

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The school committee tentatively agreed to hold a special meeting on Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Town Hall to discuss the MCAS results in detail.

Mansfield also outperformed the state average in the overall proficiency qualifier. The number of Mansfield students in the Warning/Failing percentage were on average half of the state average percentage. Click to see this year's results and last year's.

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Mansfield also reached its overall Adequte Yearly Progress targets.This year, 1,404 school districts didn't meet this marker.

"I think we did very well," said Mansfield Committee Chairman Michael Trowbridge.


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