Texas’ students saw some wins in reading but continued to struggle to bounce back from pandemic-related learning losses in math, state testing results released Tuesday showed.

Overall, state performance in math still fell below where students were in spring 2019, the last test before the pandemic hit. “Clearly more work is needed,” Morath said of the math scores.

Reading scores have surpassed pre-pandemic levels while math scores for third through eighth grade students are still lagging behind.

In 2023-2024, boys on average outscored girls in math in nearly nine out of 10 districts, an analysis of test scores shows.