EDUCATION 2022 statewide STAAR scores recover since start of pandemic
2022 EDUCATION EDITION
STAAR STUDENT PARTICIPATION BY YEARS The number of students taking the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness rose from 2021-22. Testing was not held in 2020 due to the pandemic.
96%
2019
87%
2021
BY HANNAH NORTON
from both 2021 and 2019. “The investments that the state is making in reading academies and accelerated instruction are clearly paying dividends for our students, and the results are a testament to the hard work of teachers across our state,” TEA Commissioner Mike Mor- ath said in a news release. “While we still have much work to do to recover from COVID[-19]-related learning loss in [math], the improvements our students have made in reading are clear.” House Bill 4545 was adopted in 2021 to provide support for students who do not pass the STAAR tests and requires that students have the opportunity to receive 30 hours of targeted instruction for any STAAR subjects they failed. The STAAR exams will be entirely online by spring 2023, as required by House Bill 3906.
Following a drop in standardized test scores during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Texas students are beginning to improve in subjects across the board, according to new data released by the Texas Education Agency on July 1. The data breaks down the perfor- mance of students in grades 3-12 who took the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness this spring. Students improved from 2021 in nearly all areas, but test performance was still below prepandemic levels in some subjects. In math, 40% of students met or exceeded the expectations for their grade level in 2022, compared to 35% the previous year. However, 50% of students met or exceeded expectations in 2019. In reading and language arts, 52% of students met or exceeded expec- tations, which was an improvement
98%
2022
CATCHING UP Reading and language arts recovered ahead of math after the peak of the pandemic. Below is a collective comparison of data for grades 3-12.
Percent of students that met grade level or above
MATH Down 10% from prepandemic gures
2019 50%
2021 35%
2022 40%
READING Up 5% from prepandemic gures
2019 47%
2021 43%
2022 52%
SOURCE: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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