Los Angeles Unified students continue to struggle from pandemic learning setbacks, state test scores show, with modest progress in math, but largely flat or slightly declining results in English. In math, the overall scores rose by 2 percentage points, with 30.5% of all students meeting or exceeding learning goals set by the state and measured in testing that took place in the spring, according to data released by the school district Tuesday.
There were bright spots, with incremental gains in grades three, four and 11. In an interview, Carvalho said the 11th-grade scores seemed like an anomaly — welcome news, but difficult to explain and perhaps not meaningful in the big picture. The progress in grades three and four could represent the success of one-on-one and small-group instruction that focused especially on the early grades.