Maine NECAP Scores

How are Maine's students in grades 3-8 doing on state standardized tests?

In Maine, students in Grades 3-8 take the New England Common Assessment Program test, or NECAP, which is an assessment test given to elementary school students in Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.  The fall of 2009 was the first time Maine students took the NECAP, which replaced the Maine Education Assessment as Maine's state standardized achievement test. The NECAP tests Math, Reading, and Writing, though no writing scores were reported from the fall 2009 NECAP administration, as new test questions were being piloted at that time.

At the link below, you can:

• See statewide average scores for both Math and Reading.
• See scores for individual school districts by grade level and subject.
• See how all of Maine's school districts rank in terms of NECAP scores.
• Directly compare scores for up to three school districts.
• Compare scores within school districts from one grade level to the next.
• Compare test scores against poverty rates for every school district.

To access the GreatSchoolsforME.org NECAP data center, click here.

Looking for high school-level data? Click here.

Note: Score data may be missing for some grade levels in some of Maine's smaller schools. In some instances, there are so few students in a given grade level that scores are not reported, as they are not considered to be statistically reliable.

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