The latest standardized test scores released Thursday by Massachusetts Department of Education shows improvement in the state’s second largest school system.
Springfield, which has struggled for years with low student test scores, saw gains in the English, math, and science MCAS tests in the city’s high schools. The schools have shown steady MCAS improvement now for three years in a row, according to school superintendent Dan Warwick.
" I was really excited to see the significant gains at the high school level," said Warwick.
Students in Springfield’s troubled middle schools, which are being operated jointly by the city and the state, took an alternative to the MCAS exam known as PARCC. Those scores are not yet available.
Test scores in the Holyoke Public Schools were flat. A state-appointed receiver took charge of the Holyoke schools in July following a decade of poor academic performance.
