Metro Atlanta public school students lost about nine weeks of in-person instruction when schools switched to virtual learning in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. That likely caused thousands of Atlanta public school students to fall behind, according to a new analysis commissioned by non-profits Learn4Life and RedefinEd Atlanta.
The COVID Slide?
The analysis estimates that out of 600,000 Atlanta students, about 21,000 fewer are likely to achieve grade-level proficiency in English Language Arts and 29,000 fewer are proficient in math. That may not be a huge percentage of students, but the numbers have an impact, says Ed Chang, executive director of RedefinEd Atlanta.
“If you took, on average, 500 kids in a school, that’s roughly 42 entire schools worth of children that may not be proficient anymore in ELA and about 58 entire school buildings worth in math,” he says.
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