Here's How Every Astoria, LIC School Did In The Latest State Tests

ASTORIA, QUEENS — After months of anticipation, the city on Wednesday released results from the latest round of state standardized tests, giving the first snapshot into how students' learning has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic — including in Western Queens.

The data, for exams in math and reading (known as English/Language Arts, or ELA), covers grades three through eight. This year's tests were the first taken by all of New York's public school students since 2019, after being canceled in 2020 and made optional in 2021.

Citywide, the results present a mixed picture: math performance dropped by 7.6 percentage points, with about 38 percent of students passing that exam, but reading scores rose by nearly 2 points to a 49 percent passage rate, as Chalkbeat first reported.

Patch isolated the math and ELA results for each of the roughly two dozen public schools in Astoria and Long Island City, for 2019 and 2022. (Charter schools were not included in the data.)

The best performing local school in both reading and math was the 30th Avenue School in Astoria, which is designated gifted and talented. Students there scored 98 percent proficient in reading and 95 percent in math, according to the data

The Baccalaureate School for Global Education was not far behind, at 93 percent in ELA and 87 percent in math, followed by P.S. 122 Mamie Fay and P.S./I.S. 78Q.

The biggest percentage-point improvement from 2019 to 2022 occurred at I.S. 204 Oliver W. Holmes, whose students recorded a 12-percentage-point jump in reading. The biggest drop occured at P.S. 84 Steinway in Astoria, where math scores dropped by 23 percentage points since 2019.

Find the results for each Astoria and Long Island City public school in the table below, which can be searched and sorted:

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Broken down by racial group, the percentage of children who passed math tests fell across the board, with Latino students seeing the biggest decline at 10 percentage points, according to Chalkbeat.

The mild improvement in reading performance stands in contrast to nationwide trends, which have largely shown major drops in reading performance.