Only 20percentt of low-income eighth-graders were proficient in math -- less than half the proficiency rate of more advantaged students.
Seventy-five percent were proficient in math, compared with 70percentt statewide.
Of third-graders, 94percentt were proficient in English, 89 percent in math.
At Public School 1, on 47th Street, 45.4 percent were proficient in English, 63.8 in math.
Suddenly, 54 percent of city students were proficient in math and 42 percent in English.
But only 15 percent of students were proficient in math, 18 percent in reading.
Twenty-six percent of 12th graders were proficient in math in 2009.
And in Illinois, 23 percent of Hispanic eighth graders were proficient in reading.
In 2009, 96 percent of their fifth graders were proficient in English, 89 percent in math.
In 2009, 76 percent of the school's general education students were proficient in language arts.
The second received a C; 29.7 percent were proficient in English, 39 percent in math.
