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Harrison County presents cohort test-score trends; ELA gains credited to sustained reading program, math lags as students age
Summary
District data showed cohort-level declines in math proficiency as students progressed through grades and modest, steady gains in ELA tied to the district’s science-of-reading work. The state assigned the district "Tier 1" universal support for literacy.
Harrison County Schools on Oct. 27 presented cohort-level assessment results showing falloff in math performance as students progress to older grades, while English language arts scores have shown steadier improvement, district staff said.
Julie Mancini presented the analysis of state assessment cohorts, comparing the same students over multiple years to avoid apples-to-oranges comparisons. Mancini said the district’s third graders in 2021–22 scored 42 percent proficient in math; the same cohort scored 34 percent as sixth graders in 2024–25, a decline she highlighted as a pattern across multiple cohorts. "We see a trend in math: the older our students are, the scores drop," Mancini said.
By contrast,…
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