Data released Friday showed Texas students’ math and science scores on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness continue to slip since the pandemic.
The scores are broken down into four categories: did not meet , approaches and above, meets and above, and masters.State averages across those grades show that 32.5% failed to meet the standard, 40.6% met or exceeded the grade level standard and 15.5% mastered it.NEISD: 32.5% failed to meet the standard, 39.8% met or exceeded and 14.6% mastered.
SAISD: 55.6% failed to meet the standard, 19.5% met or exceeded and only 5.5% mastered. Seventh graders fared the worst in the district with 74% failing to meet the grade-level standard.Eighth graders performed better than fifth graders did. Twenty-six percent of fifth graders across the state met or exceeded the grade-level standard and 43% did not meet it. For eighth graders, 42% met or exceeded the standard and 32% did not.
The district’s eighth graders fared better with 45% meeting or exceeding the standard and 28% failing. NEISD outperformed the state average with 57% meeting or exceeding the grade-level standard, 29.5% mastering it and 20% failing.
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