INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) recently announced results from the spring 2025 administration of the Indiana Learning Evaluation and Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN). Results show that math proficiency continues to increase across all grade levels, while English/Language Arts proficiency remained relatively flat year-over-year.
Statewide, 40.6% of Indiana’s students are at or above proficiency standards in English Language Arts (ELA), and 42.1% of students are at or above proficiency standards in math. This is up 0.1 and 5.2 percentage points respectively since 2021, which represents the current Indiana baseline. Key takeaways from the data include:
Since the 2021 baseline, ELA proficiency has increased across most grade levels, although not as significantly as math proficiency. Decreases were seen in 7th and 8th grades. The largest year-to-year increase was in grade three (1.7 percentage points). The largest year-to-year decrease was in grade seven (3.9 percentage points).
Since the 2021 baseline, math proficiency has increased significantly across all grade levels. Most grade levels increased more than one percentage point in math compared to last year. Only grade three had a decline (0.9 percentage points). The greatest change was in grade eight (3.1 percentage point increase).
Black students had year-over-year increases in both ELA and math (0.9 and 2.0 percentage points respectively) and had the highest percentage point increase of all students in ELA. Black and Hispanic students had the highest year-over-year percentage point increases of all students in math (2 percentage points).