Virginia students demonstrate steady improvement on SOL tests, numbers show

Gov. Youngkin says Virginia students' SOL scores improved despite harder tests

Virginia students have shown progress in SOL scores for the 2024-25 school year across multiple subjects, despite the tests being significantly more challenging.Governor Glenn Youngkin credited his $418 million "All in Virginia" plan as a key factor in the positive results, highlighting the improvements as evidence that students are recovering from pandemic-related learning losses.The policy focused on high-intensity tutoring in math and reading…

Virginia’s SOL scores, school attendance rates show modest improvement

Students showed increased proficiency across the five subjects tested for the Virginia Standards of Learning. Those gains, however, were modest and largely continue to lag behind pre-pandemic pass rates. The Virginia Department of Education released 2024-2025 SOL test results Wednesday. Reading pass rates increased noticeably in grades six, seven and eight, with minimal improvements in grades four and five. The third-grade pass rate held steady …

Standards of Learning scores improve slightly in Virginia

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Newly released Standards of Learning (SOL) scores show Virginia’s students are improving.  “What we are doing is working,” said Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to reporters on Wednesday, Aug. 27. The Youngkin administration announced that 68.3% of students in grades 3-8 passed their math SOL exam during the 2024-25 school year -- a 1.9% increase from the previous year.  Meanwhile, 71.9% of students in that group passed their read…

Virginia students demonstrate steady improvement on SOL tests, numbers show

RICHMOND, Va. Virginia students demonstrated steady improvement across multiple subjects on the latest Standards of Learning (SOL) tests, according to numbers published by the Virginia Department of Education.Gov. Glenn Youngkin celebrated the 2024-2025 results Wednesday, highlighting progress despite making the tests more challenging during his administration."We raised the bar and students met the challenge," Youngkin said.The SOL results show…