Test results from the AzM2 and MSAA – Arizona’s two statewide assessments conducted annually – show around oner-third of students who took the tests passed them, though the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) warns not to read too deeply into the low scores.
In one of the latest signs of learning loss because of the pandemic, only 38% of public school students who took the English Language Arts (ELA) section of the assessments passed; a 4% drop in the share of students who passed in 2019. The situation was worse in math with only 31% of students passing, an 11% decrease in mathematics scores compared with 2019. Only 84% of students took the ELA assessment, and 86% took the mathematics section, which was lower than a suspended federal requirement.
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