Baltimore City Public Schools's (City Schools) students in grades 6 and 7 outperformed students across Maryland in English Language Arts (ELA or Literacy), according to the state's latest Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) data.
Student Growth Percentiles is a measurement by the Maryland State Department of Education to assess the amount of student growth from one year to the next on the annual MCAP exams. Communities can use this apples-to-apples comparison to better understand how students measure up to academically similar peers.
City Schools students notched outperformed their peers in several categories, including:
Black or African American students - the average 7th grade ELA test-taker at City Schools grew more than 51 percent of all students in the same grades statewide.
English Learner students - the average 6th grade ELA test-taker at City Schools grew more than 55 percent of all students in the same grades statewide.
Hispanic or Latino students - the average 6th grade ELA test-taker at City Schools grew more than 58 percent of all students in the same grades statewide.
White students - the average 6th grade ELA test-taker at City Schools grew more than 67 percent of all students statewide in the same grade.
Some school-level results are even more encouraging, with many examples of schools with an average test-taker growing to more than 70 percent of students statewide.
This is growth. This is progress. And continued progress is our goal.