Maple Place Outperforms State But Falls Below Peers on Academic Achievement

Maple Place received high marks on academic achievement but scored below peers on this and other metrics, according to data released by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) last week.

The state's new performance reports, which replace the school report cards issued in past years, rates schools on standardized test results, college and career readiness and student growth at the middle school level. 

The performance report looks at a school's ranking compared to the rest of the state and to a peer group with a similar demographic. Maple Place's peers included Marlboro Middle School, Marlboro Memorial Middle School and Upper Freehold Middle School, among others.

Maple Place outperformed 82 percent of the state and 46 percent of its peer group on academic achievement, which takes into account New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) results.

On the college and career readiness metric, which considers chronic absence results and the number of middle schoolers taking Algebra I, Maple Place ranked above 44 percent of the state and 29 percent of its peer group.

Maple Place outperformed 53 percent of the state and 32 percent of peers on the report's student growth metric, which measures NJ ASK scores from one year to the next.

Schools scoring above the 80th percentile are considered very high performing; the 60th to 79.9th percentile is high performing; the 40th to 59.9th percentile is average performing; the 20th to 39.9th percentile is lagging; and scores below the 19.9th percentile are considered significantly lagging, according the state's scoring metric.

To see how other schools in the area fared, click the link here: http://education.state.nj.us/pr/nav.php?c=25