The 2024 MCA results were released last week. I’m pleased to report that despite the headlines you see about stable results at the state level, Eastern Carver County Schools continues to display real academic progress in our math (up 1 percentage point) and reading (up 1.5 percentage points) scores. Here are a few highlights:

  • Math scores were higher in 2024 than in 2019 — we are the only district in our 15-district peer group that can make that claim.
  • We are #1 in math and #2 in reading among our peer districts in change in MCA scores both since 2019 and since 2022 — this indicates we saw less of an impact during the pandemic itself *and* we have accelerated our learning back faster than others.
  • We now rank 5th among our peer districts in math and reading achievement after ranking 9th (reading) and 10th (math) in 2019.

This is further demonstration that the changes we have implemented coming out of the pandemic are working and these results are a testament to the hard work and dedication of our teachers and staff.