{"id":4944,"date":"2020-02-11T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2021-05-24T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:53:27","slug":"third-grade-english-and-math-performance-on-the-pssa-2018-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/2020\/02\/11\/third-grade-english-and-math-performance-on-the-pssa-2018-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Grade English and Math Performance on the PSSA, 2018-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This data brief uses third-grade student scores on the PSSA (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment) from spring 2019 to analyze District\u00a0performance by race\/ethnicity, gender, English Learner status, and special education status. This information complements the School District of Philadelphia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/performance\/programsservices\/open-data\/\">Open Data<\/a> District Level resources.<\/p>\n<p>Findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In spring 2019, 3,353 third-grade students scored proficient or advanced on the English Language Arts (ELA) PSSA; this corresponds to 32.5% of the students who took the test.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, White and Asian students had the highest percentage of students scoring proficient or advanced (57.5% and 56.9%, respectively).<\/li>\n<li>Multi-Racial, Black\/African American, and Hispanic\/Latino students had the lowest percentages of students scoring proficient or advanced (33.9%, 24.8%, and 24.4%, respectively).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click the button below to read the complete 9-page brief.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_btn title=&#8221;CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE REPORT&#8221; style=&#8221;gradient-custom&#8221; gradient_custom_color_1=&#8221;#0b315b&#8221; gradient_custom_color_2=&#8221;#398635&#8243; align=&#8221;center&#8221; button_block=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.philasd.org%2Fresearch%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F90%2F2020%2F02%2FThird-Grade-PSSA-Performance-2018-19-Data-Brief-February-2020.pdf|||&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A descriptive analysis of third-grade District performance on the 2019 PSSA and PASA exams by race\/ethnicity, gender, English Learner status, and special education status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21878,"featured_media":4067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,142],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equity","category-system-trends","tag-k-5"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6381,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/6381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}