The district’s science score increased 3.7 points to 56.8, reaching the state’s Green performance level. Math improved 7.2 points but remained 22.4 points below proficient. English Language Arts remained Green, at 11.6 points above proficient.
The share of graduates classified as prepared for college and careers reached 59.9%, compared with 56.1% in 2025. Chronic absenteeism declined to 12.5%, from 14.8%.
These are districtwide results for the Dashboard’s “All Students” group. The district highlighted the figures in a Facebook announcement. Prior-year results are here.
- Brad Haugaard
So "graduation" and prepared for "college or a career" don't mean the same thing.
ReplyDelete40% of students are unable to go to college or get a job but 90.1% of them "graduated"...to what future? No wonder there is a broad perception that diplomas mean very little when it comes to actual skills the holder has.
A little note...backwards Idaho standards of proficiency are higher than oh-so-smaht California's.
It is to the good that standardized testing shows increased effectiveness and acquired skills, but are the teachers doing a better job or have lower performing students left the system? I'll bet they all like the Pride Flag, 100%.
Do the educators know or care?
One thing is for sure, the budget cannot be big enough.
Wonder why unionized schooling is losing more and more students?
Thank Randi Weingarten.
I agree with Harry. A graduation rate of over 96%, when fewer than a third of eleventh graders scored “Proficient” or higher in mathematics on the statewide Smarter Balanced test, is evidence for the regrettable conclusion that the Monrovia public schools, like so many others, have been reduced to a jobs program for the employees and day care for working parents, with learning by the pupils merely a byproduct.
ReplyDeleteThis is a particular disservice to the more than 60% of students in the district who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, for whom the elementary and secondary education that so many of us take for granted might make a real difference in their lives over the decades to come.
It’s all too easy to give in to the soft bigotry of low expectations, but the community should be outraged. In the words of the late Dr. Hector P. Garcia, founder of the American G.I. Forum, “Education is our freedom, and freedom should be everybody’s business.”