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The latest Education Recovery Scorecard places Utah students more than half a grade level behind in reading in the spring of 2024 compared to achievement levels before the pandemic.

While Utah largely outperformed national averages, fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores still haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels.

Utah has a goal of getting 70% of third-grade students reading at grade level by 2027. As of the end of the last school year, only 48% of third-grade students were reading at grade level.

“There were a lot of districts that lost a substantial amount of ground. And there were actually a couple of districts that improved over the pandemic,” said Tom Kane, faculty director of Harvard’s Center for Education Policy and Research.

Utah was the only state to not see a statistically significant decline in eighth grade math scores between 2022 and 2019. Utah’s fourth graders, on the other hand, did see test scores go down.

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