EDUCATION: MBUSD student performance rises in state tests
by Mark McDermott Every autumn the Manhattan Beach Unified School District receives what school board trustee Bruce Greenberg likes to call its “report card,” or what is more cumbersomely known as the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, a battery of standardized tests required by the state to measure how well students are learning. MBUSD has always performed well in the tests relative to most school districts, with well over 80 percent of students routinely meeting or exceeding state standards. But the district has experienced a small but persistent decline in CAASPP scores since the pandemic. In the years prior to the pandemic, for example, nearly 85 percent of MBUSD students met or exceeded English Language Arts standards, but after a 2.48 percent decline last year, this measure had dropped to 79.52 percent. Math scores had likewise dropped districtwide from nearly 80 percent meeting or exceeding standards pre-pandemic to 72.99 percent last year. Jonathan Erickson, the district’s director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, presented this year’s CAASPP results to the school board last week and was happy to announce that the decline had come to an…
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