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8th grade MATH proficiency (PSSA) — BENJAMIN B. COMEGYS SCHOOL, 2024-25
The share of tested grade-8 students scoring proficient or advanced on the PSSA math test. This figure is for female students. Population: accountability cohort (students enrolled the full year).
Identifiers
school code 1260 · metric key pssa_grade8_math_proficiency · year 2024-25 · subgroup FEMALE · population cut acct
- 1What you seeWithheld by the publisher
The publisher suppressed this cell (too few students to report). The site stores it as suppressed and never as zero.
- vs. peers
- —
- vs. citywide
- —
- unit
- percent
- direction
- higher is better
- 2How it was computedvalue = published '% proficient or advanced' (accountability cohort by default)
- Unzip the district's PSSA/Keystone archive and read the accountability-cohort ('Acct') and all-tested ('Actual') school CSVs.
- Keep rows for the test, subject, grade, and subgroup this metric represents.
- Store the published '% proficient or advanced' as the value and the published number tested as the denominator; suppressed cells (asterisks/blanks) are stored as suppressed, not zero.
- Store the accountability-cohort cut as the default (population_cut = 'acct') and the all-tested cut alongside it ('actual').
Note: stored percentiles are computed by a batch script after loads; a difference from the live reconstruction means a newer load changed the comparison set and the batch has not been re-run.
- 3The stored cellThe stored cell
- table
- philly_school_year_metrics
- value
- null
- denominator
- 13
- suppressed
- true
- citywide_percentile
- null
- comparison_group_percentile
- null
- source_load_id
- bba25088-d2c0-415a-b47e-c47d1dcb2edc
Evidence: data model overview
- 4The load that wrote itWritten on 2026-06-03 by sdp_pssa_keystone.ts
- source id
- sdp_pssa_keystone_2024-25
- SHA-256 of the file read
- d040e16c1b88f33dd481efbdb1a3924951ab7cc81869c8dee52458280574c13a
- bytes
- 705,262
- year covered
- 2024-25
- code commit
- 63ddc08c2a63170cecb6e78b991559cef9aa3926
To confirm you have the same file: download it from the URL above, then run
shasum -a 256 <downloaded file>— the output should equal the hash above. If the publisher has since replaced the file, the hashes will differ, which is itself useful to know.Evidence: loader script · first-fetch findings for this file · source registry
- 5The publisher's filePSSA & Keystone results, 2024-25
School District of Philadelphia (Performance Office). State test results by school, test, subject, grade, and subgroup: counts and shares at each performance level, in two population cuts — the accountability cohort (students enrolled for the full year) and all tested students.
- format
- ZIP of CSVs (accountability-cohort and all-tested cuts)
- join key
- id_eos (= ULCS Code)
- Two cuts of the same results; the accountability cohort is the canonical one served by default.
- District-run and alternative schools only; charter results come from the state's Future Ready file.
- 6How it was checkedChecks: 0 passed, 2 flagged, 1 not run
- ○ not runBase case not run for this grade/subject specifically (run for the all-grades aggregates and grade 3 ELA; same loader and file)
- ⚠ flaggedAccountability-cohort vs all-tested files are byte-identical after sorting in SDP's 2024-25 archive — a publisher defect, so this check cannot distinguish the two populations
- ⚠ flaggedCross-publisher sanity check vs the state's Keystone results
Evidence: Accountability-cohort vs all-tested files are byte-identical after sorting in SDP's 2024-25 archive — a publisher defect, so this check cannot distinguish the two populations · Cross-publisher sanity check vs the state's Keystone results
- 7Assumptions & caveatsAssumptions and caveats
- The accountability cohort (students enrolled for the full year) is the intended canonical population. However, the two files SDP publishes for 2024-25 ('Acct' and 'Actual') are identical once sorted — 28,525 rows with no differing value or denominator — so the served 'acct' and 'actual' cuts carry the same numbers. We treat this as a publisher defect (one file published under two names) and cannot say which population the numbers describe.
- District-run and alternative schools only from this file; charter schools' Keystone results come from the state's Future Ready file.
Algorithms involved: Citywide and peer-group percentiles, Peer groups: 40 nearest neighbors on demographics
The same metric for this school, every year and cut
| Year | Subgroup | Cut | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | All students | accountability cohort (students enrolled the full year) | 0.0% |
| 2023-24 | All students | all tested students | 0.0% |
| 2023-24 | Female students | accountability cohort (students enrolled the full year) | withheld |
| 2023-24 | Female students | all tested students | withheld |
| 2023-24 | Male students | accountability cohort (students enrolled the full year) | withheld |
| 2023-24 | Male students | all tested students | withheld |
| 2024-25 | All students | accountability cohort (students enrolled the full year) | 11.5% |
| 2024-25 | All students | all tested students | 11.5% |
| 2024-25 | Female students | accountability cohort (students enrolled the full year) | withheld |
| 2024-25 | Female students | all tested students | withheld |
| 2024-25 | Male students | accountability cohort (students enrolled the full year) | withheld |
| 2024-25 | Male students | all tested students | withheld |