Nearly 36% of Hamilton County students in grades three to 12 performed at or above grade-level expectations in English language arts and 44% in social studies for 2022 – the district’s best performance in five years.
Hamilton County Schools’ recent testing scores under the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, released Wednesday, are on par with the state in average proficiency scores across all major subject areas: a 36.5% proficiency in English, 31.3% in math, 40.2% in science and 43.7% in social studies.
Like the state, Hamilton County saw improvement in most subjects compared to 2021. One exception was science, with 41.6% proficiency, a drop of about one percentage point.
However, unlike many school districts that suffered learning loss due to the pandemic, Hamilton County Schools stayed relatively steady in terms of proficiency scores, Shannon Moody, chief strategy officer for the district, said in a phone call.
“We saw in our data that there were places where we saw a dip for our students, but by and large, our students stayed steady when the rest of the state saw that decline or evidence of that learning loss,” Moody said, adding that adopting a new English language curriculum contributed to preventing learning loss.