Newly released AzMERIT scores show modest academic improvement across Pima County Schools, but Southern Arizona's largest school district is dragging down the county's results.ย
Students in the Tucson Unified School District performed well below the state average on the standardized test and were also outperformed by students in eight of the Tucson-area's nine major school districts.
AzMERIT, which tests students from third grade up on English language arts and math, was designed to be more difficult and rigorous than the AIMS test it replaced, and the majority of Arizona students have not tested proficient in any subject at any grade level over the last three years it has been administered.
Statewide, 39 percent of students passed the English language arts portion of the AzMERIT test administered last spring, while 40 percent of students passed the math portion of the test. Pima Countyโs school scores were slightly lower, with 38 percent of Pima County students passing the reading and writing portion of the test, and 37 percent passing the math portion.
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Scores for Pima County schools in Fiscal Year 2017.
Scores by county in Fiscal Year 2017.
