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Ani is Uzbek American and knows the language from her grandmother, but she’s barely proficient.

That means that across both groups, more than 85% of students are not proficient in math and English.

Still, nearly 4 in 5 Black students are not proficient in math.

But spring 2024 scores remain low for 11th grade students, who will be graduating this year: 49.6% of students are proficient in English and 21.4% in math, rates at least 6 percentage points below this year’s 11th-grade state scores.

But even with the upturns among these students, their scores were sobering: 36.8% were proficient in English, 25% in math and 20.7% in science.