The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development has released the latest results from statewide standardized tests for math, English, and science.
The test uses four categories to measure students’ test results, advanced, proficient, near-proficient, and needs support.
Borough-wide, just under thirty-seven percent of students tested at the advanced or proficient level in English, and forty-point-five percent tested at those levels in math across all grade levels.
Talkeetna Elementary performed higher than the borough average in both math and English results. Trapper Creek students scored higher than the borough average in English but lower in math. Willow’s results were higher than the borough average in math, but lower in English. Su Valley averaged lower than the borough as a whole in both categories.
The statewide science assessment is only given to students in fifth, eighth, and tenth grades. Across the Mat-Su, forty-six-and-a-half percent of students scored either advanced or proficient. In Talkeetna, seventy-five percent of students tested in one of those two categories. In Willow, half of students tested achieved either advanced or proficient scores. Results were not published for Trapper Creek Elementary due to the small number of students tested. At Su Valley, just over thirty-seven percent of students tested in the upper two categories.
