North Carolina’s statewide average test proficiency rates are still behind pre-pandemic levels across all subjects except for fourth-grade reading and fourth-grade math, new data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction shows.

But North Carolina students are making big gains in math , even though they remain behind the proficiency rates of 2018 and 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools to in-person learning for a year, the new data shows.

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Third- through eighth-grade students take math and reading tests. Fifth-grade and eighth-grade students take science tests.

At the high school level, some students take

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