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2022 Official Accountability Report - Lowell High
Organization Information
DISTRICT NAME
Lowell (01600000)		TITLE I STATUS
Title I School
SCHOOL
Lowell High (01600505)		GRADES SERVED
09,10,11,12
REGION
Coastal		FEDERAL DESIGNATION
Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI)
Accountability information

Low student group performance: Asian

Low participation rate: Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat.
School accountability percentile
11

Student group percentile

Group2022 percentile
High needs 14
Low income -
English learner (EL) and Former EL -
Students with disabilities -
American Indian or Alaskan Native -
Asian 3
African American/Black 45
Hispanic or Latino -
Multi-race, non-Hispanic or Latino -
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander -
White 6

Detailed data for each indicator

English language arts achievement - MCAS average composite scaled score - High school
Group 2019 Achievement 2022 Achievement N
All Students 497.2 495.2 610
High needs 489.6 490.6 474
Low income 490.4 491.5 420
EL and Former EL 481.9 482.4 209
Students w/ disabilities 475.5 476.7 94
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian 501.3 500.8 192
Afr. Amer./Black 493.2 492.3 57
Hispanic/Latino 487.9 488.5 206
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat. 502.9 489.5 22
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White 501.7 499.8 133

Mathematics achievement - MCAS average composite scaled score - High school
Group 2019 Achievement 2022 Achievement N
All Students 498.8 491.5 598
High needs 491.5 485.6 465
Low income 491.7 485.9 411
EL and Former EL 486.5 479.5 207
Students w/ disabilities 476.1 472.4 93
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian 506.4 499.3 190
Afr. Amer./Black 492.7 487.0 54
Hispanic/Latino 487.3 481.6 199
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat. 500.2 485.1 22
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White 501.7 497.8 133

Science achievement - MCAS Composite Performance Index (CPI) (2019) and average composite scaled score (2022) - High school
Group 2019 Achievement (CPI) 2022 Achievement
(Average composite scaled score)		 N
All Students 80.7 490.0 542
High needs 73.1 483.9 413
Low income 73.2 484.4 363
EL and Former EL 67.0 475.5 184
Students w/ disabilities 49.0 468.5 78
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian 86.8 494.6 182
Afr. Amer./Black 70.5 486.5 50
Hispanic/Latino 69.2 480.8 168
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat. 86.3 488.4 20
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White 85.8 497.5 122

English language arts growth - High school
Group 2019 Mean SGP 2022 Mean SGP N
All Students 41.5 48.2 510
High needs 39.8 48.4 390
Low income 39.9 47.7 344
EL and Former EL 37.6 50.6 157
Students w/ disabilities 36.5 39.4 78
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian 41.4 50.3 180
Afr. Amer./Black 45.4 50.0 41
Hispanic/Latino 38.5 48.8 157
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat. 42.0 43.4 20
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White 43.7 44.3 112

Mathematics growth - High school
Group 2019 Mean SGP 2022 Mean SGP N
All Students 36.5 41.5 501
High needs 34.7 40.5 383
Low income 34.3 40.4 337
EL and Former EL 34.1 39.8 158
Students w/ disabilities 27.2 38.7 77
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian 37.9 41.4 179
Afr. Amer./Black 44.5 43.1 40
Hispanic/Latino 31.2 38.7 152
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat.-- 19
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White 36.2 45.3 111

Four-year cohort graduation rate - High school
Group 2020 Rate (%) 2021 Rate (%) N
All Students 84.5 82.8 795
High needs 79.3 78.1 580
Low income 80.9 77.4 579
EL and Former EL 66.9 70.6 143
Students w/ disabilities 61.2 59.4 106
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian 91.8 92.1 253
Afr. Amer./Black 86.0 85.9 85
Hispanic/Latino 79.1 69.0 216
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat. 81.0 88.5 26
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White 81.3 83.7 215

Extended engagement rate - High school
Group 2019 Rate (%) 2020 Rate (%) N
All Students 87.0 88.1 804
High needs 81.4 84.3 580
Low income 82.7 85.9 533
EL and Former EL 73.6 75.0 136
Students w/ disabilities 60.2 71.8 103
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.-- 1
Asian 94.0 93.0 243
Afr. Amer./Black 86.5 94.4 107
Hispanic/Latino 73.4 83.2 196
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat.- 81.0 21
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.-- 1
White 90.4 85.1 235

Annual dropout rate - High school
Group 2020 Rate (%) 2021 Rate (%) N
All Students 2.9 2.4 3,027
High needs 3.8 3.1 2,139
Low income 3.7 3.1 1,771
EL and Former EL 6.2 6.1 622
Students w/ disabilities 4.3 3.1 384
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian 1.5 0.7 908
Afr. Amer./Black 2.8 1.8 337
Hispanic/Latino 4.9 4.5 926
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat. 2.1 0.9 113
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White 2.5 2.4 743

Progress toward attaining English language proficiency - High school
Group 2020 Rate (%) 2022 Rate (%) N
All Students 17.2 15.6 537
High needs---
Low income---
EL and Former EL 17.2 15.6 537
Students w/ disabilities---
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian---
Afr. Amer./Black---
Hispanic/Latino---
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat.---
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White---


Chronic absenteeism - High school
Group 2019 Rate (% of students missing 10% of days) 2022 Rate (% of students missing 20% of days) N
All Students 24.9 19.7 3,244
High needs 31.2 23.2 2,624
Low income 35.1 24.3 2,390
EL and Former EL 28.0 20.5 1,201
Students w/ disabilities 55.7 37.6 442
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian 16.0 10.5 928
Afr. Amer./Black 14.6 13.8 354
Hispanic/Latino 42.1 28.0 1,174
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat. 22.2 14.5 117
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White 22.9 21.8 671

*The 2022 accountability calculations include the percentage of students missing 10% or more of their days in membership in 2019, and the percentage of students missing 20% or more of their days in membership in 2022.


Advanced coursework completion - High school
Group 2021 Rate (%) 2022 Rate (%) N
All Students 66.7 59.1 1,383
High needs 58.5 51.4 1,047
Low income 58.4 50.4 958
EL and Former EL 52.3 44.5 465
Students w/ disabilities 17.9 19.0 142
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---
Asian 77.2 69.5 446
Afr. Amer./Black 67.7 63.4 172
Hispanic/Latino 50.4 42.4 420
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat. 64.7 63.8 47
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---
White 68.5 64.1 298

Assessment participation - All students
Group English language arts Mathematics Science
Enrolled Assessed % Enrolled Assessed % Enrolled Assessed %
All Students 689 68399 683 66998 679 65596

Assessment participation - Student groups
Group English language arts Mathematics Science Overall
Enrolled Assessed Enrolled Assessed Enrolled Assessed Total Enrolled Total Assessed %
High needs 552 546 547 535 543 520 1,642 1,60198
Low income 490 484 485 475 482 462 1,457 1,42198
EL and Former EL 268 265 263 260 260 251 791 77698
Students w/ disabilities 100 97 98 96 98 93 296 28697
Amer. Ind. or Alaska Nat.---------
Asian 198 198 197 197 197 196 592 591100
Afr. Amer./Black 63 62 62 60 61 59 186 18197
Hispanic/Latino 250 247 244 236 242 231 736 71497
Multi-race, Non-Hisp./Lat. 24 23 24 23 24 21 72 6793
Nat. Haw. or Pacif. Isl.---------
White 154 153 156 153 155 148 465 45498


About this Report

Accountability information: Most districts and schools did not receive an overall accountability determination in 2022. However, school accountability reports may contain additional performance information if the school has been designated underperforming or chronically underperforming, or if they have one or more low performing student groups, a low graduation rate, or low assessment participation. District accountability reports may contain additional information if the district has been designated chronically underperforming or if the district has low assessment participation.

School accountability percentile: An accountability percentile between 1 and 99 is reported for most schools. This number is an indication of the school's overall performance relative to other schools that serve similar grades, and is calculated using multiple years of data for all accountability indicators. School percentiles are not calculated for districts.

Low income and economically disadvantaged students: Beginning in fall 2021, DESE no longer reports data for the economically disadvantaged student group and instead reports data for a newly defined low income student group. Unlike the economically disadvantaged group or the former low income group used prior to 2015, the new group includes a broader range of disadvantaged students who are identified through one of three different sources:

1. Students who participate in one or more of the following state-administered assistance programs: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); Transitional Assistance for Families with Dependent Children (TAFDC); the Department of Children and Families' (DCF) foster care program; and MassHealth (Medicaid);

2. Students who are homeless, as reported to DESE by districts via the Homeless and Foster Care data collection tool; or

3. Students who are identified as low income through the Supplemental Low Income Data Collection, as reported to DESE by districts via the Student Information Management System (SIMS).

This change also impacts the membership of the high needs student group, which is an unduplicated count of all students in a school or district belonging to the students with disabilities, English Learner (EL) and former EL, and/or low income students groups.
In the 2022 accountability results, the 2022 data for accountability indicators includes students who meet the new definition of low income. Earlier data for accountability indicators includes who students who were previously identified as economically disadvantaged.


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