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How Kids Are Performing is based on insights from millions of student assessments. The report explores key questions, including:

How has the pandemic truly impacted students’ reading and math performance at each grade level?
Is the impact reflected in growth outcomes?
Does the impact vary by student subgroup? Have existing achievement gaps widened?
Can we interpret the pandemic’s impact in instructional terms?

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Tracking the Impact of COVID-19 on Reading and Mathematics Achievement

State-level trends

To estimate the pandemic’s impact on student learning in fall, we drew on a sample of over 5 million students in grades 1–8 from all 50 states plus DC who took Star Early Literacy, Star Reading, or Star Math assessments during both Fall 2019 and Fall 2020.

Below, state-level summaries are provided for two of the metrics included in the report. Summaries are based on the students who took the fall Star Assessments and are not necessarily representative of the state population.

Subjects

States

Alabama

AL
Alaska

AK
Arizona

AZ
Arkansas

AR
California

CA
Colorado

CO
Connecticut

CT
Delaware

DE
District of Columbia

DC
Florida

FL
Georgia

GA
Hawaii

HI
Idaho

ID
Illinois

IL
Indiana

IN
Iowa

IA
Kansas

KS
Kentucky

KY
Louisiana

LA
Maine

ME
Maryland

MD
Massachusetts

MA
Michigan

MI
Minnesota

MN
Mississippi

MS
Missouri

MO
Montana

MT
Nebraska

NE
Nevada

NV
New Hampshire

NH
New Jersey

NJ
New Mexico

NM
New York

NY
North Carolina

NC
North Dakota

ND
Ohio

OH
Oklahoma

OK
Oregon

OR
Pennsylvania

PA
Rhode Island

RI
South Carolina

SC
South Dakota

SD
Tennessee

TN
Texas

TX
Utah

UT
Vermont

VT
Virginia

VA
Washington

WA
West Virginia

WV
Wisconsin

WI
Wyoming

WY

Wisconsin

Data for this time period is unavailable for Wisconsin.

MTSS Risk Categories for

Comparison of distribution of students by Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) risk categories for (grades ), versus

MTSS Risk Categories

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Fall 2020-1

Fall 2019

Sample size: --- students

Nationwide

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Fall 2019

Fall 2020

Sample size: --- students

Urgent intervention

Intervention

On watch

At/above benchmark

Mode

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Notes

This presentation summarizes selected How Kids Are Performing analyses by state and subject, relying on historical records as well as data from August through mid-October 2020. Refer to the national report for details on methods, samples, and limitations. For more information about the Star Assessments, start here.

Not all states have been included in this presentation due to small sample sizes. We excluded states if there were fewer than 10 schools and/or fewer than 2,000 students per subject. Please also note that the state-level results presented here may not be representative of any state’s student population.

Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding.

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