Federal data: School leaders say 40% of students are behind grade level

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-21 19:27:28 | Updated at 2024-12-22 06:48:29 11 hours ago

Federal data: School leaders say 40% of students are behind grade level
Center Square ^ | Dec 14, 2024 | Brendan Clarey

Posted on 12/21/2024 11:06:50 AM PST by george76

According to a federal survey of school leaders, 40% of students in the nation’s public schools were behind grade level in one or more subjects at the beginning of the school year.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) announced its findings this week that the percentage of students school leaders estimated to be behind where they should be was down 7% from the 2022-23 school year but still 8% higher than before the pandemic.

School leaders told the federal education statistics agency in October that over a third of students were behind entering the 2024-25 school year. NCES data shows students are farther behind than before state and local governments closed schools during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Before the pandemic, school leaders estimated that 32% of students were behind grade level in at least one area. In 2021-22, it rose to 45%, and in the 2022-23 school year, it reached 47%.

The data shows school leaders were more likely to say students from low-income families and in schools where the population was 76% or more students of color were behind, with 52% of students estimated to be behind where they should be.

School leaders located in cities and at schools with fewer than 300 students reported that 48% of students were lagging academically.

The data follows with broader student academic achievement data and other metrics that show the effects of the pandemic closures were not equitable to minority students, who suffered more significant declines in academic achievement.

The survey also found that students were more likely to be estimated to be behind in specific subject areas studied.

“Ninety-eight percent of public schools reported that at least some students were behind grade level in mathematics and English or language arts,” the NCES said in its findings.

School leaders said 76% of students were behind in the sciences, and 55% were behind in social studies.

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1 posted on 12/21/2024 11:06:50 AM PST by george76

To: george76

Forty Percent of Children? So, NCLB is now FPOCLB?

2 posted on 12/21/2024 11:09:59 AM PST by Degaston

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3 posted on 12/21/2024 11:10:26 AM PST by huldah1776

To: george76

Somebody has been hitting the pipe, the real number is 75%-80%, and what they do know is mostly just wrong.

4 posted on 12/21/2024 11:13:43 AM PST by eyeamok

To: george76

If parents can, they are putting their children in private schools. It would be interesting to see those statistics.

5 posted on 12/21/2024 11:14:20 AM PST by Parley Baer

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I'd hazard a guess it's far more than that they way standards have been dumbed down over the last decades.

Compare they to the literacy rate of the late 1800'w and early 1900's and it's going to be even more dramatic.

6 posted on 12/21/2024 11:18:39 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)

To: george76

Had Kamala been elected, the left’s response would have been that the current grade levels are racist, products of white supremacist hegemony, and that the solution is to recenter the standards.

That will still be the left’s position, actually, but at least for the next four years, someone else will be running the Department of (mis)Education. Whether the housecleaning will go deep enough to cut out the cancer remains to be seen.

7 posted on 12/21/2024 11:19:32 AM PST by sphinx

To: george76

Half of the kids are behind the half in front?

8 posted on 12/21/2024 11:20:55 AM PST by Paladin2

To: george76

We need to fire all of the teachers and all of the administrators in public schools and start over again. They can interview for their old jobs thanks to the crappy results they have produced.

To: george76

Another reason the Department of "Education" should not exist--as well as public schools. The 2024 dept of "education" budget is $238 BILLION. What does the country get for that? Nothing.

10 posted on 12/21/2024 11:23:10 AM PST by Fungi

To: george76

I suspect the white and asian kids are doing much better. The black and brown kids (esp the illegals) are the problem.

Black and brown kids don’t even care about school since their dream is welfare. In their cultures school is just free food and free daycare.

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