CPS students hold steady on Nation's Report Card

Chicago Public Schools' fourth and eighth-grade scores remained flat overall since 2015 on the Nation's Report Card published Tuesday, though the district continues to outpace the state.

Illinois' largest public school district saw a narrowing of the gap between students of color, who make up at least eight of 10 kids in CPS, and white students, in both grades and subjects. But oddly, that gap shrunk because of significant drops by white students on the tests rather than large strides shown by African-American and Hispanic kids, whose progress was mixed.

CPS as a whole followed national and statewide trends in 2017, showing roughly the same progress as 2015. That's the last time these reading and math tests were given to samples of fourth- and eighth-graders in public schools.

The district is continuing steadily on a long-term trend of growth from 2003, said LaTanya McDade, CPS' chief education officer, when about 10 percent of CPS fourth-graders were proficient in math and 9 percent of eighth-graders.

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