Student math scores take a hit after year of COVID remote learning

New Hampshire students who engaged in virtual learning saw a drop in mathematics assessment scores over the last academic school year, according to data released by the Department of Education Tuesday, in what officials said was an indication of pandemic-driven learning loss.

Across the state, proficiency in math dropped from 2019 to 2021, the assessment data says. Where 48 percent of students were measured as proficient or above proficient in math in 2019, only 38 percent of students had achieved a similar result in 2021, the data shows.

English language arts and science proficiencies stayed relatively level. Fifty-two percent of students achieved proficient or above proficient scores in English in 2021, compared with 56 percent in 2019. The number of students who scored the same in science moved from 39 percent in 2019 to 37 percent in 2021.

The data represents the aggregate of the state’s annual assessment; each spring, students in grades three to eight are evaluated in English language arts and mathematics, and students in grades five, eight, and 11 are assessed in science.

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