This is on the heels of test score results released for NYC elementary schools last week. Slight increases from last year, but the numbers are alarming.
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More than half of city school kids did not pass basic math or English state exams , even though this year’s state exams scores ticked up slightly, according to state data released Thursday.
While state officials lauded scoring increases, only 47.4 percent of city students in grades 3 to 8 scored at proficient levels in English and 45.6 percent made the grade in math, according to the numbers.
The city’s overall English proficiency rate edged up by 0.7 percent from the prior year and math scores improved by 2.9 percent, the numbers show.
The city’s Asian kids had the highest rate of math and English proficiency again, the data show.
In math, 74.4 percent made the grade, followed by white students at 66.6, Hispanics at 33.2 and African Americans at 28.2.
All ethnic groups posted gains in math, with whites improving by 3 percent, Hispanics by 2.9, African Americans 2.8 and Asians 2.2, according to the figures.
Asian kids also set the pace in English with a 67.9 percent proficiency rate, followed by whites at 66.6, Hispanics at 36.5 and blacks at 35. All groups posted slight increases in the category.