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District reports assessment gains; state will shift juniors to ACT for summative testing

Tea Area School District 41-5 Board of Education · November 11, 2025
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Summary

Administrators reported notable gains in science and third-grade proficiency, described curriculum review timelines including a planned math adoption for 2027, and said the South Dakota Department of Education will have juniors take the ACT (the state will roster and pay for testing).

District administrators told the board the Tea Area’s state assessment results show sizable gains in several grades and that the state is changing the summative assessment for juniors.

The assessment and curriculum director told the board the district saw a 17 percentage-point increase in eighth-grade science proficiency and an 11.4…

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