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See How Lower Manhattan Schools Fared on State Tests This Year

 See how Lower Manhattan schools fared on this year's state exams.
See how Lower Manhattan schools fared on this year's state exams.
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LOWER MANHATTAN — Lower Manhattan public schools don't love standardized tests, but their students are still really good at them.

Downtown public school students were some of the city's top performers on the state's math and English exams, according to data released by the Department of Education Wednesday.

Citywide, students scored slightly higher this year than last, with about 35 percent of students meeting proficiency standards in math, up from roughly 34 percent last year, officials said. About 30 percent met standards in English, an increase from 28 percent the year before.

Despite the slight gains across the city, black and Hispanic students continue to drag behind — a gap that Mayor Bill de Blasio said he will address through the city's universal pre-K program and other efforts.

In Lower Manhattan, all the public schools outpaced the city score averages.

At TriBeCa's P.S. 234, for example, 80.4 percent of students met math standards, and 70.4 percent met English standards.

See how the rest of Lower Manhattan schools performed on the exams with this map:

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