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District reports gains on state assessments and outlines shift for juniors to ACT
Summary
District assessment director reported sizable gains in science proficiency and steady growth in third-grade math; the state will switch the junior-year summative assessment to the ACT beginning with the class of 2027 and will roster and pay for the ACT, with testing split over two days to reduce fatigue.
The district’s assessment and curriculum director presented South Dakota summative assessment results, highlighting notable gains and explaining an incoming change in statewide testing for juniors.
The director reported sharp gains in science proficiency—an approximately 17 percentage-point increase at eighth grade and an 11.4 percentage-point increase at 11th grade—and steady gains in 3rd-grade math over four years, with…
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