LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The good news for the Lansing School District was that in all but one grade level it showed improvement in reading and math proficiency in 2024-25 in the national Northwest Evaluation Association assessment.

The bad news was not one grade level had at least 30% of its students rated proficient in either of those categories with some in the single digits.

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The school district released its academic performance on the NWEA tests at a recent school board meeting.

The percentage of students proficient in reading ranged from as low as 16.8% in eighth grade to as only as high as 29.9% in 11th grade. In math, proficiency scores rated as low as 9% in grade six to only as high as 27.4% in kindergarten.

Of the 26 grades assessed, only the seventh-grade math proficiency score was not an improvement from the previous year.

Total revenues for the district have increased from $156.6 million in 2019 to $229 million in 2024.