By Kyla Calvert
When the results of grade level exams in English, math, science and history were released this week, San Diego Unified students outshined their counterparts across California. San Diego students scored higher on the state English test than students of any other large urban school district and their math scores came in second.
Over the last five years those scores have inched up steadily. This year 59 percent of San Diego student tested at proficient or higher in English, 14 percentage points ahead of the district’s students in 2007. Fifty-one percent reached the same level in math, 12 percentage points higher than 2007.
Three years ago about 30 percent of the students at Mann Middle School in City Heights tested at proficient in both math and English. This year, 55 percent were at least proficient in math and 44 percent reached the same level in English – not bad considering that about two-thirds of Mann’s students are not native English speakers.
Read more on Mann Middle School from Speak City Heights partner, voiceofsandiego.org