Georgia ranks 29th among U.S. states for post-pandemic academic recovery in math and seventh for recovery in reading between 2019 and 2024, according to the Education Recovery Scorecard’s report released on Tuesday.
Nevertheless, Georgia students have not fully recovered academically to pre-pandemic levels, and they lag behind, particularly in math. Georgia students are nearly a half grade level, or 0.49, behind in math and a little less than a third of a grade level, or 0.29, behind in reading.
This means students in Georgia have made, on average, half the progress in math they would have made each year before the pandemic, and 91% of students attend districts where math achievement levels lag behind those of 2019. This is worse than the national average: 85% of students on average across the U.S. attend districts that are below 2019 levels of math achievement.
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