STAAR star ⭐️. @FortBendISD 4th grader Omar Kabalan scored a perfect 💯 on the math portion of a test that many Texas kids struggled with thanks to the pandemic.

As testing season for Texas elementary students has recently passed for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, the Star-Telegram has created a math quiz to see how adults ...

Statewide, students maintained or improved its share of students who met grade level in every math and reading exam except for fifth-grade reading, which decreased by 3 percentage points.

Students in Dallas ISD and Fort Worth ISD reported gains in reading and math across most grade levels in spring 2025 STAAR tests.

In math, 46% of DISD fourth graders met grade-level standards — roughly the same as statewide. Seventh grade math was a negative outlier for Dallas, where 60% of students failed the STAAR.

Texas students’ passing rates on the reading STAAR test mostly held steady and while they saw growth in math, performance still lags behind pre-pandemic levels.