While Texas students have not regained all the ground they lost in math during the pandemic, STAAR test scores across all grades were higher in 2022 than they were in 2021. Reading proficiency, on the other hand, appears to have fully recovered.
The agency said participation in STAAR exams — the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness — rebounded in 2022 after dropping last year. This year, 98% of students participated, with nearly 90% taking STAAR tests online. Only 87% of students participated in 2021. The year before, STAAR was canceled.
In 2019, 50% of students in grades 3-8 met or exceeded grade-level proficiency. That dropped to 35% in 2021, before increasing to 40% this year. When looking at each grade level, all saw improvement when compared to last year. Third graders saw the most improvement with 41% meeting grade level in math in 2022. In 2021, that figure was 29%.
“In reading, in particular, we have been engaged as a state in a very large effort to improve reading for students,” he said. “It is clear that those state policy efforts are paying real dividends.” Students learning English, known in Texas as emergent bilingual students, made significant gains in reading proficiency. Thirty-one percent met or exceeded grade level in 2022, up 11% from last year.
He said while Texas has historically struggled to help students move from below-grade level to meets-grade level, that appears to be changing in the wake of this legislation. He points to data that shows in 2018-2019, 32% of kids who were below grade level accelerated to “approaches” grade level in reading. After the implementation of HB 4545 before the 2021-2022 school year, 45% of kids who were below grade level in reading jumped up to approaches grade level.
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