West Feliciana Parish 78.9% St. Charles Parish 77.2% Ascension Parish 75.8% Iberville Parish 75.6% Plaquemines Parish 75.2% ...

Statewide, 68% of third graders read at grade level. In Columbus City Schools and other urban districts in Cleveland and Dayton, the rates are just 41%, 35%, and 40%, respectively.

SALEM — Thanks to advocacy from a third-grade class at Horace Mann Laboratory School, the city recently proclaimed June 8 as Robert Morris Day to celebrate the life of attorney, ...

In Dallas County, third grade reading achievement dropped slightly from 83.58% in 2023-2024 to 83.1% for 2024-2025. But the numbers are still ahead of 2022-2023, which only saw 73.42% at or above ...

Statewide, the proportion of students who met grade level for third grade reading improved from 46% in 2024 to 49% in 2025 and for eighth grade students from 54% to 56%, according to TEA data ...

WINCHESTER — United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley is now acting as the administrative agency for the Winchester Campaign for Grade-Level reading, a coalition of local agencies working to get ...

Third-grade reading scores in Selma City, Bullock County, Wilcox County and Lowndes County jumped by more than 5 percentage points from 2023-24 to the 2024-25 school year, without adjusting for ...

A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s up from 4,808, or about 9%, of students in 2024.

Alabama third grade students appeared to improve on a test of reading comprehension last year despite a slight increase in testing standards, according to numbers released by the Alabama State ...

According to the department, a smaller percentage of students who took the Alabama Comprehensive Assessment of Progress (ACAP) fell below the score considered “sufficient” for grade-level reading. The ...

The 2019 Alabama Literacy Act requires students reading on grade level by the end of third grade. Students who fall short on the test and don’t meet an alternative requirement can be held back.