ELKINS — Local county school systems showed drops in student proficiency in the last school year, according to data released by the West Virginia Department of Education.
Members of the West Virginia Board of Education heard a report last week during their monthly meeting on the 2021 state summative assessment results.
According to the report for grades 3-8 and 11th grade, 28 percent of students statewide were proficient in math at the end of the school year last year, an 11-point drop from 39 percent in 2019. For English and Language Arts (ELA), 40 percent were proficient last year — a 6-point drop from 46 percent in 2019. In Science which is tested in grades 5, 8, and 11, 27 percent were proficient last year — a 6-point drop from 33 percent in 2019.
Vaughn Rhudy, Director of Assessment in the Office of Teaching and Learning for the Department of Education, said the state was able to administer assessments to more than 91 percent of students last year who were enrolled for a full academic year, or at least 135 non-consecutive days.
Randolph County’s proficiency levels dropped less sharply than the state average, according to the data released.
In Randolph County, math proficiency dropped by 5%, as 24% of students tested countywide in the 2020-21 school year either met or exceeded the math standards, compared to 29% in 2018-19.
In reading, Randolph County’s proficiency level dropped 3%, from 38% in 2018-19 to 35% in the 2020-21 school year.
Randolph County’s science proficiency level remained constant, maintaining the 24% level in 2020-21 that it had achieved in 2018-19.
In Upshur County, math proficiency dropped by 7%, from 27% in 2018-19 to 20% in 2020-21.
Reading proficiency dropped 8% in Upshur County, from 37% in 2018-19 to 29% in 2020-21.
Upshur County’s science proficiency fell 5%, from 24% in 2018-19 to 19% in 2020-21.
In Barbour County, math proficiency fell 7%, from 32% in 2018-19 to 25% in 2020-21.
Barbour’s reading proficiency stayed constant at 35%.
Science proficiency in Barbour County rose 2%, going from 24% in 2018-19 to 26% in 2020-21.
In Tucker County, math proficiency fell 11%, from 32% in 2018-19 to 21% in 2020-21.
Reading proficiency fell 6%, from 43% in 2018-19 to 37% in 2020-21.
Tucker’s science proficiency fell 6%, from 36% in 2018-19 to 30% in 2020-21.
In Pocahontas County, math proficiency fell 12%, from 42% in 2018-19 to 30% in 2020-21.
Reading proficiency dropped 1% in Pocahontas, from 40% in 2018-19 to 39% in 2020-21.
Pocahontas showed a 2% drop in science proficiency, from 33% to 31%.
The report combines the results of the West Virginia General Summative Assessment for grades 3-8, the SAT School Day assessment for 11th grade, and the West Virginia Alternative Summative Assessment for grade 3-8 and 11th grade. The report covers the 2020-2021 school year and compares that data to test results for the 2018-2019 school year
The state received a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education on testing during the 2019-2020 school year when school was shut down for in-person learning starting in March 2020 through the remainder of that school year.
State Superintendent of Schools Clayton Burch told board members that the results should be viewed as a snapshot into the first full pandemic school year. Particularly in the first part of the 2020-2021 school year, schools switched often between in-person learning, remote learning when COVID-19 cases increased in counties, and a blend of both models. Burch said more than 50,000 students never saw the inside of a classroom, instead opting for virtual learning.
“I just want to put into context as these are released today … that they do have to be part of a bigger puzzle that we’re looking at,” Burch said. “Of course, we have to look at the learning loss of the gap. We need a direction, and we need to learn what the learning loss was, and it’s going to be nationwide. It’s not going to be just in West Virginia.”
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