The Florida Department of Education has released the 2023 spring assessments results, including FAST (Florida Assessment of Student Thinking) reading and math scores, statewide science assessment scores and end-of-course exam scores in all other subjects.
The 2022-23 school year was the first year that the FAST progress monitoring system was in place. As a result, the state is not releasing grades this summer to ensure time to correlate the new metric with the previous assessment. Instead, the state expects to release school grades this fall.
Volusia County Schools shared the following summary-level data:
- The percentage of students in grades three, four and seven who scored at or above the proficiency level in English Language Arts (ELA) increased compared to last year.
- Students maintained or closed the achievement gap in ELA compared to the state in five out of eight tested grade levels.
- The percentage of students in grades three through five scoring at or above the proficiency level in ELA ranked in the top four among all 11 districts in the Central Florida Coalition.
- The percentage of students scoring at or above the proficiency level in math increased in all grade levels three through eight compared to last year.
- In grade five, the percentage of students scoring at or above proficiency level in science is 10 percentage points above the state average.
- Students maintained or closed the achievement gap compared to the state on three out of five end-of-course assessments.
- In geometry, Volusia County Schools maintained proficiency while five of the 11 districts in the Central Florida Coalition of schools decreased.
