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Between 2024 and 2025, Fort Worth ISD witnessed improvements in reading STAAR scores at every grade level.
Every spring, students sit for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests. The performance on the tests in relation to grade-level expectations is used to break down the results. Students who pass and are proficient are said to be meeting grade level.
According to the district, 41% of pupils in the third and fourth grades read at grade level. Compared to previous year’s 33%, that was an 8-point increase.
This gain was the biggest one-year improvement in reading scores for any grade in Fort Worth ISD since the epidemic.
Jumps were also recorded in grades five through eight.
Officials from Fort Worth ISD attributed the increase to targeted educational tactics, including lesson uniformity and teaching requirements, as well as concentrated literacy efforts.
The district continues to lag behind other sizable urban systems. Dallas ISD presently behind Fort Worth ISD by 6 points, which is less than it was in prior years.
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