Student Achievement and Learning Acceleration on Spring 2024 Ohio State Tests

As of spring 2024, the performance of Ohio students in English language arts (ELA) has mostly recovered to levels seen before the start of the pandemic (with the exception of eighth grade), and indeed now exceeds pre-pandemic achievement in several grades. In addition, large gaps in ELA achievement between student demographic subgroups and districts that emerged during the first year of the pandemic have substantially narrowed and are now near their pre-pandemic levels. Students with disabilities and English learners remain behind each group’s respective pre-pandemic baseline, however.

In math, achievement remains considerably lower (except in ninth grade Algebra), and students have made minimal improvements in math over the past year in most grades. The remaining shortfalls represent about a month of learning in elementary grades and grow to between one-third and one-half of a school year in middle school grades. Achievement also remains lower in science and social studies in some grades, although the magnitudes vary.