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Table 33. MCAS ELA Pass Rates of Students of Different Language Proficiencies. BPS, SY2009<br />

MCAS ELA Pass Rates<br />

LEP pass rates in MCAS ELA were highest among<br />

tenth graders, among whom 72.6% passed MCAS<br />

ELA in SY2009. At 55.6%, pass rates were lowest<br />

among middle school students. Across all grade<br />

levels, MCAS ELA pass rates <strong>for</strong> LEP students were<br />

the lowest when compared to all BPS students or to<br />

English proficient students (Table 33). Nevertheless,<br />

ELA pass rates improved across all grades and were<br />

most salient among eighth and tenth grade students<br />

(Figure 10). Gaps in pass rates between LEP<br />

and EP students decreased across all grade levels<br />

between SY2006 and SY2009. The most salient<br />

decline was in Grade 10, where the gap was more<br />

than halved. In spite of these declines, pass rate<br />

gaps between LEP and EP students continued to<br />

range between 18 and 36 percentage points in<br />

SY2009 (Appendix 2).<br />

All BPS EP LEP<br />

4 th grade 76.5% 79.9% 61.6%<br />

8 th grade 88.5% 92.2% 55.6%<br />

10 th grade 92.3% 95.2% 72.6%<br />

Notes: Differences in the MCAS ELA outcomes between LEP students and students proficient in English are significant <strong>for</strong> all<br />

grade levels Chi 2 , (p

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