Tucson Unified School District students are almost back to pre-pandemic English proficiency but will need “another year or two” to bounce back on math learning progress, administrators told the district board.
TUSD presented data, based on state standardized test results, showing the district was in line with statewide and local trends in terms of losses and gains in the pandemic years. But TUSD still fell short of statewide proficiency averages and lagged behind all but one other Tucson-area district.
In math, TUSD showed a proficiency of 30% among third- through eighth-grade students during the 2018-2019 school year. That fell by more than half, down to 13% in 2021, then increased to 19% during the 2021-2022 academic year. Compared to combined statewide averages of both ELA and math, Freitas said, TUSD elementary schools lagged behind by about 10%; middle schools fell behind by about 15%; and high schools fell short by about 6%.
“I hope that we can get those numbers up because, at this point, we are failing our students and our one job is to educate them,” board member Sadie Shaw said. ‘Number one, it’s expensive’Romero said other local school districts, such as Amphitheater and Flowing Wells, also dealt with low-income demographics and still showed better performance than TUSD.
“I’d like the board to consider aiming high, trying new things, emphasizing physical books and one-on-one instruction, and then to increase our partnerships with organizations,” Shaw said. Trujillo noted that TUSD has its own way of measuring success within the district, such as celebrating if a second-grade student goes into the classroom reading at a kindergarten level and leaves reading at a first-grade level.But, he added that the district still has to follow state mandates, such as testing students on the Arizona Academic Skills Assessment, which plays a big role in how schools are graded.
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