Courtesy of DOE.in.gov
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Education has released the IREAD-3 results from the 2021-2022 school year, showing that while students’ reading proficiency has improved since last year, there is still a sharp drop-off from pre-pandemic levels.
The Indiana Reading Evaluation and Determination (IREAD-3) is designed to measure basic reading skills and reading comprehension based on Indiana Academic Standards.
In the year since the pandemic began in, the students’ proficiency rate dropped from 87.3% to 81.2%.
Chief takeaways of the results include:
- 81.6% of Indiana’s grade three students passed IREAD-3
- Over 14,000 students (20%) who took IREAD-3 did not pass
- Statewide, proficiency rates for students increased by 0.4%
- Low-income students performed 15.3% below the peers
- Black students perform 20% below their peers
- Hispanic students perform 15% below their peers
