Students in Alameda County outperformed their peers statewide in last year’s assessment tests for English, math and science, according to county education officials.
The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress for the 2024-2025 school year showed that 56% of the county’s students demonstrated mastery of English Language Arts, 48% did so in math and 42% did so in science.
That’s above state averages of 49% for ELA, 37% for math and 33% for science.
It’s also a 1 percentage point increase compared to the previous year’s scores and above pre-pandemic scores in science, according to the Alameda County Office of Education.
Also, the county’s ELA and math scores are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels — just 0.6 percentage points below in ELA and 0.8 points below in math.
Foster Youth saw the biggest gain in ELA with a 9.4 percentage point jump and in science with a 3.4 percentage point increase. Filipino students saw a 2.3 percentage point increase in ELA, 3.1 percentage points in math and 2.3 percentage points in science.
African American students gained .6 percentage points in ELA, 1.3 percentage points in math and 2 percentage points in science.
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