California English and math test scores rise for first time since the pandemic, but still show pandemic learning loss

For the first time since COVID-19 hit, California students demonstrated slight, across-the-board gains in math, English and science according to statewide standardized testing data released Thursday.

Statewide, the number of students who met or exceeded grade-level standards increased a little less than half a percentage point in English and science, to 47% and 30.7%, and nearly a full percentage point in math, to 35.5%.

Socioeconomically disadvantaged students also showed the strongest gains, with about a 1.5 percentage point increase in the number of students who met grade-level standards in English and science.

We are still years from catching up to where we were before the pandemic and we still have under half of our students meeting proficiency standards.

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