The scores of Delaware students on a standardized test have plateaued after a year of double digit gains.
And state officials characterized the latest results from the Delaware Comprehensive Assessment System as sustaining those gains.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the results also show that there is a continuing racial and economic disparity with low income students scoring 24 points lower in both reading and math.
African-American and Hispanic students also scored lower than white students in both reading and math.
Overall the gap shrank or remained most the same in reading but grew in math.
Over all science scores have remained steady over the past three years while social studies scores rose slowly.
Only grades 5, 8, 10 take a science section while grades 4 and 7 take the social studies section.
Reading and math are given every year.
