Students across Massachusetts, particularly current high schoolers, still haven’t rebounded academically from the pandemic five years ago, the MCAS scores released Monday indicate.

Third through eighth graders and 10th graders all take the MCAS in the spring. This year marks the first that the high schoolers are not required to pass to receive their diplomas after a ballot initiative last year .

Only 13 districts reached prepandemic levels of achievement, based on 2019 data, in both English language arts and math, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said in a press release . Sixty-three districts returned to pre-pandemic levels for grades 3-8, and 50 districts reached prepandemic levels in either English language arts or math for both age categories.

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