MADISON, WI (Metro-WSAU) – Public school tests show that less than half of Wisconsin students in grades three through eight are proficient or better in English and math.
The results released Monday show that benchmarks haven’t been met in the previous two years either.
40-percent of students were proficient or advanced in math and English. That’s up about 1-percent from a year earlier.
Wisconsin continued to have one of the largest achievement gaps between white and black students in the nation.
Nearly 50-percent of white grade school students scored proficient or better in English, compared to just 12.7-percent of black students.
More than 455,000 students across the state took the Forward exam between mid-March and early May.
