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The pandemic’s full-year impact on students’ reading and math performance
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Performance by student group
Steps for accelerating learning this fall

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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, we drew on a sample of 3.3 million students in grades 1–8 from all 50 states plus DC who took Star Early Literacy, Star Reading, or Star Math assessments in Fall of the 2019-2020 school year and Fall and Spring of the 2020-2021 school year.

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

Subjects

State

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

Spring versus Fall comparison of distribution of students by Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) risk categories for (grades ), 2020–2021 school year

MTSS Risk Categories

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From Fall to Spring, the percentage of students at or above benchmark ---.

Spring 2021

Fall 2020-3

Sample size: --- students

Nationwide

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From Fall to Spring, the percentage of students at or above benchmark ---.

Fall 2020

Spring 2021

Sample size: --- students

Urgent intervention

Intervention

On watch

At/above benchmark

Student Growth Percentile for

Median Fall to Spring Student Growth Percentile (SGP) levels for (grades ), 2020-2021 school year

Wisconsin

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Typical Pre-Covid Growth

Nationwide

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Mode

Dark

Notes

This presentation summarizes selected How Kids Are Performing analyses by state and subject using Star assessment data through May 2021. Refer to the national report for details on methods, samples, and limitations. Data used for the Spring Edition of How Kids are Performing is a subsample of the data used in the Fall Edition. As a result, current Fall 2020 results may differ from those previously reported.

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 2,500 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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