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

HARLEM, NY — 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 Harlem.

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 Harlem's more than 60 public schools, for 2019 and 2022. (Charter schools were not included in the data.)

The best-performing school in both reading and math was Tag Young Scholars, on East 109th Street, whose students scored 97 percent proficient in ELA and 96 percent in math, according to the data.

The biggest percentage-point improvement from 2019 to 2022 occurred at the Urban Assembly Academy for Future Leaders in West Harlem, where reading proficiency jumped by 26 percentage points to 45 percent overall. The best math improvement, 10 percentage points, happened at P.S. 133 Fred R. Moore on Fifth Avenue.

Find the results for each Harlem 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.