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BY ANGELA BONILLA & ATIRIKTA KUMAR
Conroe ISD STAAR results see decreases
Passage rate changes, 202324 The data shows the change in percentage points of students who passed the STAAR between the spring 2023 and 2024 administrations in English. Conroe ISD Statewide -15 -10 -5 +5 +10 +15 0
Standardized test passage rates declined among grades 3-8 year over year at Conroe ISD, according to the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness results released June 14. Both statewide and CISD scores did not see much improvement in the rates of students approaching grade level—which is considered passing—in read- ing and math between the spring 2023 and spring 2024 administrations of the STAAR test. In case you missed it The STAAR was redesigned in 2023, and new changes were implemented in
in math, but in 2024 that number dropped to 49%. Seventh grade was also the grade level that saw the steepest drop in both math and reading scores statewide from 2023 to 2024. “Math [is] where we’ve seen a lot of gaps as we look at students from those COVID[-19] years,” CISD Deputy Superintendent Bethany Medford said at an Aug. 6 board of trustees workshop. Major takeaways Medford said despite some decreases since the previous year, the district performed favorably
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compared to its peer schools, which includes Cypress-Fair- banks, Humble, Katy and Klein ISDs. She said the seventh-grade math decrease can be attributed in part to the district’s advanced math students skipping the seventh-grade test because the curriculum is compacted for the accelerated math track. Among
how tests were graded in 2024. In 2019, House Bill 3906 mandated a redesign of the state standardized test, which was administered online from that point. The new test also emphasized writing skills and a larger variety of questions, according to the Texas Education Agency’s website. The 2024 tests were graded
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“Math [is] where we’ve seen a lot of gaps as we look at students from those COVID[-19] years.” BETHANY MEDFORD, DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT, CONROE ISD
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peer districts, many students skip the eighth-grade test rather than the seventh-grade test, Medford said. Among other trends in the spring 2024 tests conducted in English: • CISD students saw at least a 2 percentage point decline in math passage rates among grades 3-8. • Fourth grade is the only CISD class that improved reading passage rates, which went up by 2 percentage points. • In high school end-of-course exams for algebra 1 and biology, CISD students improved passage rates by 1 percentage point.
mainly by computers with human oversight in an eort by the state to save money and make the grading system more ecient, according to the TEA. Statewide, students are still struggling with math scores, and the decrease in math prociency can be attributed to learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the June 14 TEA news release. The breakdown Among CISD students, seventh-grade math saw the steepest drop in passage rates by 14 percentage points, according to the TEA. In 2023, 63% of seventh-graders approached grade level prociency
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