2025-26 CT School Test Scores Released: See How Your District Performed

Connecticut students made additional gains in English and math during the 2025-26 school year, continuing a yearslong recovery from pandemic-era declines, according to newly released state assessment results.

Academic performance improved across nearly every student group in English language arts, mathematics and science, according to the Connecticut State Department of Education. Math and science improved for the fourth consecutive year, while English also improved from the previous year.

The latest results also show that Connecticut has not completely erased the academic losses that followed the COVID-19 pandemic. Statewide English and math performance remains below 2018-19 levels, although math has moved considerably closer to its pre-pandemic mark.

At the same time, more students are regularly showing up for school. Connecticut's chronic absenteeism rate fell to 16.4 percent in 2025-26, down from a high of 23.7 percent in 2021-22. State officials said the change means nearly 35,000 more students are attending school regularly.

How Did Your School District Do In 2025-26?

The district results below combine Smarter Balanced English language arts and mathematics scores for students in grades 3 through 8. The percentages show the share of tested students who met or exceeded the state's achievement standard during the 2025-26 school year.

The percentages are not average test scores or grades. For example, if a district has a math result of 65 percent, that means about 65 percent of students tested in that district met or exceeded the state's achievement standard in math.

Search the table below to see how your school district performed:

How CT Test Scores Have Changed Since The Pandemic

The share of students meeting or exceeding standards shows how statewide achievement has changed since before the pandemic.

In 2018-19, 55.7 percent of Connecticut students met or exceeded the English standard and 48.1 percent met or exceeded the math standard.

By 2021-22, those figures had fallen to 49.1 percent in English and 40 percent in math.

Math proficiency has increased each year since 2021-22, while English proficiency initially dipped before rising over the past three years.

In 2025-26, 51 percent of students met or exceeded the English standard and 46.7 percent met or exceeded the math standard.

That leaves English proficiency 4.7 percentage points below its 2018-19 level. Math, which saw a substantially larger pandemic-era decline, has recovered to within 1.4 percentage points of its pre-pandemic level.

There are two important gaps in that timeline. Connecticut did not administer its statewide academic assessments in 2019-20 after they were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Testing resumed in 2020-21, but the state cautioned against directly comparing those results with other years because of the unusual circumstances surrounding that school year.

Students learned through varying combinations of in-person, hybrid and remote instruction, while testing conditions and participation also varied across districts and student groups.