Albuquerque Public Schools is seeing encouraging progress in early literacy among some of its highest-need students, but district leaders say middle school math achievement continues to lag behind annual targets.District officials presented interim academic assessment results to the APS Board of Education on Wednesday, showing that students identified under the Yazzie-Martinez education lawsuit, along with African American students, exceeded literacy benchmarks while falling short of math proficiency goals.When it comes to reading, 29.2% of first graders scored at or above grade-level proficiency by the end of the school year, exceeding the district’s annual target by 6.2 percentage points.Second graders posted even stronger results, with 33% reaching proficiency, or 8.7 percentage points above the district’s annual benchmark.While middle school students showed modest improvement in mathematics, district officials said the gains were not enough to meet annual benchmarks.Among sixth grade students in the targeted groups, 21.2% achieved proficiency on the district’s i-Ready assessment, an increase of 0.8 percentage points from the previous school year. However, that result fell 1.4 percentage points below the district’s interim goal of 22.6%.Seventh grade students reached a 17.9% proficiency rate, up 1.3 percentage points from last year but still 1.1 percentage points below the district’s 19% target.To improve math achievement, APS plans to implement more intensive classroom interventions during the upcoming school year.
Albuquerque Public Schools is seeing encouraging progress in early literacy among some of its highest-need students, but district leaders say middle school math achievement continues to lag behind annual targets.
District officials presented interim academic assessment results to the APS Board of Education on Wednesday, showing that students identified under the Yazzie-Martinez education lawsuit, along with African American students, exceeded literacy benchmarks while falling short of math proficiency goals.
When it comes to reading, 29.2% of first graders scored at or above grade-level proficiency by the end of the school year, exceeding the district’s annual target by 6.2 percentage points.
Second graders posted even stronger results, with 33% reaching proficiency, or 8.7 percentage points above the district’s annual benchmark.
While middle school students showed modest improvement in mathematics, district officials said the gains were not enough to meet annual benchmarks.
Among sixth grade students in the targeted groups, 21.2% achieved proficiency on the district’s i-Ready assessment, an increase of 0.8 percentage points from the previous school year. However, that result fell 1.4 percentage points below the district’s interim goal of 22.6%.
Seventh grade students reached a 17.9% proficiency rate, up 1.3 percentage points from last year but still 1.1 percentage points below the district’s 19% target.
To improve math achievement, APS plans to implement more intensive classroom interventions during the upcoming school year.
