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Plunging school tests scores in SLO County, compare local school districts

October 25, 2022

By KAREN VELIE

Test scores for students in San Luis Obispo County and throughout the nation plunged during the coronavirus pandemic, demonstrating the impact lockdowns had on learning, according to data California’s Education Department recently released.

The percentage of children in SLO County meeting or exceeding standards in English language arts and in math fell in every local school district from 1% to 15% from 2019 to 2022. Students at Atascadero Unified School District fared the best while students at Coast Unified School District had the largest drops in math and English proficiency.

In Nov. 2020, three North County school districts – Atascadero, Paso Robles and San Miguel – were the first to allow some students to return to in-person learning while officials at the remaining school districts elected to delay reopenings. These three North County school districts had the lowest levels of student testing declines in SLO County.

Find out how local students fared on state tests:

At Atascadero Unified School District, 51% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 1%. For math, 39% met the standards, down 1.3%.

At Atascadero High School, 47.2% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 3.3%. For math, 26.9% met the standards, down 3.4%.

At Paso Robles Joint Unified School District, 40.8% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 6.9%. For math, 29.5% met the standards, down 6.4%.

At Paso Robles High School, 52.3% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 7.6%. For math, 25% met the standards, down 15%.

At San Miguel Joint Union School District, 35.8% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 4.4%. For math, 28.4% met the standards, down 8.2%.

At Templeton Unified School District, 57.6% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 5.6%. For math, 38.5% met the standards, down 8.6%.

At Templeton High School, 69.9% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 6.4%. For math, 32.7% met the standards, down 9.9%.

At Lucia Mar Unified School District, 50.1% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 6.3%. For math, 32.8% met the standards, down 9.3%.

At Arroyo Grande High School, 57% of students met English language arts standards, an increase of 2.3%. For math, 24.1% met the standards, down 9.8%.

At Nipomo High School, 47.3% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 12.6%. For math, 22.7% met the standards, down 5.1%.

At San Luis Coastal Unified School District, 64% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 6.4%. For math, 55.6% met the standards, down 8.5%.

At Morro Bay High School, 73.7% of students met English language arts standards, an increase of 3.5%. For math, 38.4% met the standards, down 4.7%.

At San Luis Obispo High School, 74.7% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 6.7%. For math, 54% met the standards, down 11.2%.

At Coast Unified School District, 37.4% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 14.7%. For math, 26.8% met the standards, down 11.2%.

At Coast Union High School, 64.7% of students met English language arts standards, a drop of 6.7%. For math, 29.4% met the standards, down 1.5%.

Following the release of the Nation’s Report Card, which revealed steep declines in math and reading scores in fourth and eighth grade students, parents and officials have noted the need for academic recovery.

“The results in today’s Nation’s Report Card are appalling and unacceptable,” said U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. “This is a moment of truth for education. How we respond to this will determine not only our recovery, but our nation’s standing in the world.”


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Man, If only they’d stop burning books and bringing religion into school and religious and nationalistic distractions to those poor kids; and helping the disadvantaged economic kids, these scores would be awesome! But they aren’t.


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Wow, those scores were pathetic to begin with.


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These scores are disgraceful.


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Time to raise taxes “for the children” – that train is never late!


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Teachers’ unions are to blame.


Get the government out of education!


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That’s what happens when indoctrination of students is more important than education of students. You can blame COVID-19 if you like, but this trend was happening before that.

When the failing education system pushes things like climate change, CRT, transgender, and many other immoral behaviors as priority. are these numbers surprising. Nope. You reap what you sow. The education vultures have come home to roost.

Get out the vote November 8th and return morality to school boards. Elect with men and women with character, integrity, who support parent and student rights for the normal solid education that has been missing in the classrooms for years now.

Take the education and wellbeing of the students back from the sinful and corrupt teacher unions who control most administrations as well. Power of the parents and students demanding decency again in the classroom. Educate, not indoctrinate. Those numbers without a doubt, will soar again across the board.


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“Climate change” is an “immoral behavior”? No, it is a scientific fact and the more our students know about it, the better they will be at dealing with it after you and I are dead and have left them with a warmer planet full of climate problems we are only beginning to understand.


But, I agree, our educational system needs to do a better job. If it did, we wouldn’t have people like you running around claiming that climate change is an “immoral behavior.”


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Wow, you mean kids who didn’t go to school for two years have fallen behind? Whoever could have seen that coming? Maybe for the next two years intensive teaching of only Math, Science, History, Reading and writing might help? Cut out everything that is supposed to be taught by parents.


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Test scores are down and school administration compensation is up, is there a correlation? Maybe the teachers union wasn’t right.


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Spent any time whatsoever around kids lately? This is blatantly obvious and embarrassing. Teachers and schools have absolutely failed an entire generation! This is what happens when you cater to niche groups at the sacrifice of the majority.


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