More New York City public school students are considered “proficient readers” after two years of major curriculum reforms , according to state test scores released Monday.

About 56.3% of third through eighth-graders met the state’s bar for proficiency on English Language Arts exams in the spring — a 7.2 percentage-point increase since the year before. The results erased what officials referred to as last year’s “implementation dip” as students and teachers adjusted to the new curriculum.

In math, 56.9% of students scored proficient or better, up by 3.5 percentage points.

With the major gains, the city’s students slightly outperformed the state in both reading and math. The Adams administration touted the proficiency rates as the system’s highest in more than a decade, though exper

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