School test scores show mixed results

Duval students showed improvements in math and maintained their scores in English.
Mary Altaffer

This year's Florida State Assessment and End of Course exam scores were released and reveal a mix of gains, losses and maintained scores this school year compared to last.

The scores provide an initial glimpse at how students between third and eighth grade are doing in math and English. Tests like the FSA have previously been scrutinized as an unfair indicator for progress.

This school year marked the final year they will be administered before schools in Florida move to a different progress monitoring system. Other progress indicators the school district relies on to judge progress — including district and school grades — are expected later this summer.

Read the rest of this story at WJCT News partner The Florida Times-Union.

Find scores for your school district here.

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