Students saw improvement in the STAAR tests for Algebra I, Biology and U.S. History.
Students in class at Bowie High School in Austin. High school students in Texas have remade some but not all ground in their standardized test scores compared to performance before the pandemic., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
The agency released scores for high school students who took the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness this spring. High school students take these exams to graduate. They include subjects such as Algebra I, English I, English II, Biology and U.S History.Students improved in three tests that saw declines in 2021 due to the pandemic. In Algebra 1, 46% of students met grade level, a 5-percentage-point increase from spring 2021, but it’s still a 16-point decrease from spring 2019.
The agency released results for two other high school subjects, English I and II, but those results have remained largely the same. In English I, 49% of students met grade level in 2019, and that number is at 48% for this year. In English II, scores went up from 2019. In 2019, 51% of students met grade level, and that number rose to 57% in 2022.
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