About a third of U.S. K-12 students this school year are behind grade level, according to a recent survey.
Why it matters: Schools are still dealing with the long-term effects of remote schooling and other pandemic-era learning disruptions.
How it works: The data, current as of the end of the 2023-24 school year, is from the School Pulse Panel, a monthly National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) survey of nearly 4,000 nationally representative grade schools.
- For the June 2024 data, 1,651 of those schools responded.
- The idea is to track key education metrics in near real time as teachers and administrators grapple with post-pandemic learning loss and other challenges.
The big picture: The 2023-24 results are pretty much flat from the end of the 2021-22 school year, when 33% of students were behind grade level.
