Not a single city achieved a statistically significant increase in eighth -
grade math proficiency since 2011.
Not exact matches
It is the lowest performing city in all four categories, and it got worse in three
since the last administration, including a statistically significant plummet in eighth -
grade math — dropping its
proficiency rate to 3 percent.
Fourth
grade reading and
math proficiency as well as eighth
grade math proficiency have both garnered lower or the same scores
since 2011.
Since 2006, according to an analysis of state testing data by the city's Department of Education (which used 2010's recalibrated
proficiency levels to compare 2006's testing data to 2010's), the city's elementary and middle schools have seen a 22 - point increase in the percentage of students at or above
grade level in
math (to 54 percent) and a 6 - point increase in English (to 42 percent).
Overall, fewer than half of students in any of the
grades highlighted were considered proficient in reading or
math, but all three
grades also showed increases in
proficiency in both subjects
since the 2012 - 13 school year.
The improvements Anderson cited were based on her own school rating criteria,» (but) based on state standardized test scores, Newark children had declined in
proficiency since her arrival, in
math in all tested
grades, and in language arts in all but two.»