Sentence examples for are below proficient from inspiring English sources

Currently, 74percentt of our 12th-graders score below proficient in math; 62 percent are below proficient in reading.

Scores were released to the public in September 2015, and as many predicted, a majority of students failed (that is, were categorized to be below proficient).

Achievement gaps were as wide as ever: About 60percentt of poor black students were below proficient in math and reading and had made only marginal gains since the changes were made.

We present original survey data from an urban district illustrating that evaluators perceive more than three times as many teachers in their schools to be below Proficient than they rate as such.

But in Bethlehem, over 40% of third-graders were scoring below proficient on the state reading test.

We frequently complain that more than two-thirds of fourth graders "can't read," meaning they are below what the governing board panels say is proficient on the national test.

The controversy began last October when Orange County's Kennedy High School mandated that black identification cards be issued to the top performers on the previous year's standardized tests, gold cards be issued to students who scored proficient, and white cards be issued to students who scored below proficient.

Instead a school might have a 70-30 mix — 70 percent of students who have scored proficient on state tests and 30 percent who are below grade level.

"The new Pirls results show that about one-fifth of year 4 students' reading was below the national proficient standard," he said.

On a recent national assessment in civics, two-thirds of all American students scored below proficient.

In New Mexico, 43 percent of white students fell below "proficient," along with 39 percent in Tennessee.