City students show slight gains on annual tests
The city’s elementary and middle school students showed a bit of improvement on the annual math and English exams, and Mayor Bloomberg said it shows that schools are moving in the right direction. The state Department of Education released test results on Tuesday.
The percentage of New York City students meeting the state’s bar for proficiency in math (passing with a score of 3 or a 4) increased by 2.7 points, from 57.3 to 60 percent, and by 3 points in English, from 43.9 to 46.9 percent.
Looking just at fourth-graders, here are a few local examples. In Brooklyn’s District 15, 61.1 percent of fourth graders were proficient in English, while in District 14, 51.4 percent were proficient. In Brooklyn’s District 13, 50.3 percent of fourth-graders passed the English exam.