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However, many measures of success on standardized tests showed a drop.
One exception came in two scores the state uses to measure how well schools are doing in preparing students for work. Last year 90 percent of the 11th graders scored above the bottom 25 percent on the reading test compared to 86 percent in 1992, and 86 percent scored above the lowest 25 percent in math compared to 84 percent in 1992. In the meantime scores statewide were unchanged in
87.6%