Adrian Martinez-De La Cruz

Following years of emphasis on improving early literacy rates, Indiana saw the largest single-year increase in third-grade reading scores this year, according to results released Wednesday by state education officials.

The 2025 Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination, or IREAD, assessment results showed 87.3% of Hoosier third-graders showed proficiency on the state exam.

Those results are almost five percentage points higher than in 2024, when 82.5% of students passed the assessment, and the biggest year-to-year bump seen since the IREAD test was first administered in 2013.

Growth was seen among all student groups, with Black and special education students seeing increases of 7.5 percentage points from last year. Hispanic students also saw a 7.5 percen

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