CROWN HEIGHTS — The city’s third- through eighth-grade students did slightly better on this year’s state math and English exams, the mayor announced this week.
About 35 percent of students are math proficient according to the test, up a percentage point from the previous year, while 30 percent of students met proficiency standards in English, up from 28 percent in 2014, education officials said.
It's the second year in a row students did better than the previous year on the standardized tests, the city said.
The upward trend spread across all racial groups, though a large gap in proficiency between black and Hispanic students and their white and Asian classmates continues to persist.
On the English Language Arts test, 19 percent of black students and 19.8 percent of Hispanic students were found to be proficient this year, up 1 percent and 1.6 percent from last year, respectively. About 52 percent of Asian students and 51 percent of white students were proficient in the subject, up 3 and 2 percentage points each, the test found.
To see how students in Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Prospect Heights scored, click on your neighborhood school to see its proficiency rates on the map below from DNAinfo New York.
