Contrasting results on MCAS
A Globe review of area school districts that participate in the Metco program found a large gap between the percentage of white and African-American 10th-graders who scored “advanced” on last spring’s MCAS exams. The totals for black students include both residents of the host communities and Boston residents in the Metco program.
| District | English
White Black | Math
White Black |
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| Bedford | 58 | 28 | 72 | 28 |
| Belmont | 74 | 14 | 81 | 29 |
| Brookline | 71 | 32 | 80 | 39 |
| Concord-Carlisle | 73 | 22 | 81 | 25 |
| Lexington | 76 | 27 | 83 | 44 |
| Lincoln-Sudbury | 75 | 20 | 88 | 24 |
| Natick | 56 | 36 | 68 | 55 |
| Needham | 70 | 29 | 83 | 43 |
| Newton | 66 | 18 | 80 | 33 |
| Wellesley | 70 | 24 | 82 | 35 |
| Weston | 71 | 18 | 74 | 37 |
| State average | 43 | 16 | 56 | 28 |
SOURCE: Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education