A smaller percentage of Massachusetts schools made significant progress towards, met or exceeded their own goals in 2025, state officials said Monday as they released "sobering" results from the latest round of MCAS testing.

The results, which Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler and Elementary and Secondary Education Commissioner Pedro Martinez are making public during an event at an Arlington middle school, show slight improvement in English language arts scores among students in grades 3 through 8 and no change in math scores for that cohort.

Results for 10th graders, the first class to take the standardized test knowing that voters had already scrapped it as a high school graduation requirement, were down across the board. Officials at the Department of Elementary and Secondary Educa

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