![]() ![]() The state canceled STAAR testing in 2020. Statewide, 52% of students who took the reading exam performed at or above grade level, up nine percentage points from last year and five points from 2019. “The picture is very strong in reading, and the news is good in math, but we still have a lot of work to do to recover from the impacts of the pandemic in terms of students’ mathematical knowledge and skills,” Texas education commissioner Mike Morath said at a June 30 news conference about the statewide test results. Though an increase from last year - when less than a quarter of the region’s test-takers were at grade level - it’s nowhere near pre-pandemic performance. In math, 38% of the region’s students met grade-level expectations on the elementary and middle school math and Algebra I exams. That’s an 11-percentage point jump from last year. ![]() In Region 19, which covers El Paso and Hudspeth counties, 49% of students met or exceeded grade-level expectations in elementary and middle school reading and on the English I and II exams, according to an El Paso Matters analysis of preliminary State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, exam data released July 1. That’s prompted state education officials and local districts to make catching students up in math a major focus of the next school year. ![]() El Paso-area students’ performance on this year’s state reading exams exceeded pre-pandemic levels, but the rate of students meeting grade-level math standards has yet to recover. ![]()
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