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Are students making academic progress?

See how academic results have changed over time and compare the district with the country.

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How academic results have moved since 2019

45th percentilelatest comparable estimate
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2019 starting point49th
Change by 2022-5 points
Recovery since 2022+1 points
Some recovery, but not back to 2019

The estimate fell 5 percentile points from 2019 to 2022 and has recovered 1 point since then. This is an estimated national standing, not the percentage of students at grade level.

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Every result keeps its year and source.

Primary sources

Stanford Education Data Archive 2025.1 (separately labeled research layer)

Publication rule

Suppressed values remain suppressed. Unlike measures are not blended, and missing values are never treated as zero.

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