The myth of the academic achievement at St. Marcus Lutheran School
12 October 2013 Milwaukee Courier
St. Marcus Lutheran School has been extremely vocal and aggressive in its attempt to force MPS to sell them the Malcolm X Academy Campus.
A major part of the school’s argument has been the claim that they do an excellent job in educating youth from the local community where the school is located.
The school states that they educate more than 90 percent African American children, 4 percent Hispanic, and the remaining 6 percent are White. St. Marcus has insisted that its school has superior education results than public schools, yet they do not submit their data to the Wisconsin state “School Report Card”.
However, there is some data available that can be retrieved on St. Marcus, and that is the school’s WKCE scores.
The scores from the Fall of 2012 demonstrate a view that does not appear to be consistent with the superior academic achievement that the leadership of the school boasts about.
The following reading scores raise a lot of questions. Combined proficient and advanced scores for