Here's How Every UES School Did In The Latest State Tests

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — After months of anticipation, the city last week 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 on the Upper East Side.

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 13 Upper East Side schools included in the city's data, for 2019 and 2022. (Charter schools were not included in the data.)

The best-performing neighborhood school in both reading and math this year was P.S. 77 Lower Lab School, on Third Avenue and East 96th Street, whose students scored 98 and 99 percent proficient, respectively.

East Side Middle School had the second-highest reading proficiency, at 92 percent, while P.S. 6 Lillie D. Blake ranked second in math, at 87 percent proficient.

Upper East Side schools, already well-performing, did not see any dramatic improvements compared to 2019, with the biggest percentage-point improvement being an 0.8-percentage-point increase in reading scores at Robert F. Wagner Middle School.

The biggest drops occurred in math exams, with three Upper East Side schools seeing math performance drop by at least 10 percentage points: East Side Elementary, P.S. 198 Isador E. Ida Straus, and East Side Middle.

Find the results for each Upper East Side 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.