Emeryville’s school district is celebrating dramatic improvements in its Black students’ standardized test scores from 2022 to 2023, bucking statewide and even national trends where Black students’ scores remained largely stagnant or declined slightly year over year. In Emery Unified School District, where Black children are 45% of the student population, they made double-digit gains in their English and math scores. | By Brandon Patterson Emeryville’s school district is celebrating dramatic improvements in its Black students’ standardized test scores from 2022 to 2023, bucking statewide and even national trends where Black students’ scores remained largely stagnant or declined slightly year over year. In Emery Unified School District, where Black children are 45% of the student population, they
For most K-12 student groups in California, test scores have been maddeningly flat since the pandemic. But for Black students, stagnant scores have been particularly frustrating: Black students’ math and