2025 ILEARN scores released. What the data shows about Indiana students
Statewide results showed that math ILEARN scores increased to 42.1% proficient this year compared to 40.7% in 2024. English language arts proficiency scores decreased slightly from 41% in 2024 to now being 40.6%.
The scores, released July 16, 2025, indicate students have not returned to pre-COVID levels of proficiency, which, for math and ELA scores, were just under 48% proficient in 2019.
Across all grade levels, most saw increases of more than one percentage point in math when compared to last year's results. The greatest increase was in the eighth grade, with a three percentage point increase.
For English language scores, most grade levels increased around one percentage point, except for seventh and eighth grades, when compared to last year's scores. The seventh grade saw the largest decrease at just under four percentage points.
The Indiana Department of Education results reflect scores taken on the spring 2025 ILEARN test.
The ILEARN serves as the state's accountability test, assessing students in grades 3-8 in English language arts and math. It also tests grades four and six in science and tests fifth-grade students in social studies.
Students take the tests in person on computers.
State leaders consider the 2021 ILEARN scores the baseline scores, even though ILEARN has been administered since the 2018-19 school year. However, due to the learning disruptions that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and the fact that no tests were administered in 2020, the state prefers to compare scores to those in 2021.
State department leaders suggest that the reason for the drops in English language arts scores in the later grades could be due to Indiana's increased emphasis on early literacy that began in the 2022-23 school year, due to a historic $111 million investment from the Lilly Endowment in 2022.
Indiana Secretary of Education Katie Jenner stated in a press release that this year's results indicate a need for increased focus on ELA in the adolescent grades.
'While we are positively moving and improving in math, there is an urgent need to support middle school students in English/language arts,' said Jenner. 'It is essential that our schools and parents/families continue to work together and stay laser-focused on increasing student learning and success.'
Achievement gaps remain for student groups
Student population groups, like ethnicity, socioeconomic status, special education status and English language learner status, have also not caught up to 2019 levels of proficiency.
However, all student groups saw improvement in math from the 2021 and 2024 scores.
Both Black and Hispanic students saw a two percentage point increase in their math scores from 2024.
Most student groups' ELA scores either flatlined or decreased slightly year over year. The largest increase in ELA scores among the student groups was for special education with a 1.3 percentage point increase.
Modified ILEARN testing coming for all schools in 2025-26 school year
For the 2024-25 school year, around 1,350 schools participated in the pilot version of the modified ILEARN test.
This redesign of ILEARN involves three 'checkpoint' tests throughout the school year, along with a shortened summative test at the end of the year. Starting in the 2025-26 school year, every school will conduct ILEARN this way.
The purpose of the redesign is to help schools provide real-time data to teachers and families to catch struggling students faster.
SAT results show increases in reading and writing, but no change in math
The state also released the 2025 SAT results on Wednesday. The SAT serves as the state's required high school assessment and fulfills federal accountability requirements. All students take the SAT in the 11th grade.
State law requires the 'passing' cut score for the SAT to be the same as the national cut score.
This year's scores for the evidence-based reading and writing, or EBRW, show that students who met the cut score increased 2.7 percentage points from last year. In total, 54.5% of 11th-grade students met the reading and writing cut score this year.
Math scores have continued to worsen in recent years, going from 32.9% of 11th-grade students meeting the math cut score in 2022 to 25.4% meeting the cut score this year. The 2025 math scores only increase slightly from last year's score of 25.2%.
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Contact IndyStar K-12 education reporter Caroline Beck at 317-618-5807 or CBeck@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter (X): @CarolineB_Indy.
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