Harford County students continue to improve their proficiency in math and English Language Arts, according to Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program data released Tuesday.

MCAP is administered annually to third through eighth graders as well as to high schoolers, who take Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry and 10th grade English assessments. MCAP tests provide a statewide snapshot of the academic progress of Maryland public school students.

The data shows in the 2024-2025 school year, 60.2% of Harford students were proficient in English, 28.4% were proficient in math and 33.2% were proficient in science.

Harford’s math and English data show significant increases since 2022, when 49.8% of students were proficient in English Language Arts and 20.2% were proficient in math; however, science proficiency shows a decrease of about 4.6 percentage points since 2022, when student proficiency was 37.8%.

Compared to 2024 data, the district’s English proficiency increased by 3.5 percentage points and math proficiency also increased by 3.5 percentage points while science proficiency dropped by 1.7 percentage points.

Statewide, an estimated 50.8% of students showed proficiency in English Language Arts, up from 48.4% the year prior. Statewide proficiency in math also increased from 24.1% to 26.5%

Last year marked the fourth full year the English and math assessments were administered since the shortened test year for the 2020-2021 school year, when the COVID-19 pandemic began.

State education officials said the assessment data shows steady progress statewide in “reversing post-pandemic learning loss.”

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