Published September 14, 2010

The WBUR newsroom gets this helpful e-mail from Heidi Guarino, chief of staff at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education:

Several of you have asked for a one-stop place to find all local MCAS results. Everything is posted here: http://profiles.doe.mass.edu/state_report/mcas.aspx, and can be sorted either by districts or schools.

Last week, Gov. Deval Patrick declared the achievement gap was narrowing between white children and African-American and Hispanic students.

Overall, tenth graders scoring proficient or higher in English fell from 79 to 78 percent and stayed at 75 percent for math.

The MCAS was first implemented in 1998, and the math and English sections became a high school graduation requirement for the class of 2003. The science and technology section first became a graduation requirement in 2010.