MPS shows improvements in 2025-26 MCA results
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MPS shows improvements in 2025-26 MCA results
Minneapolis Public Schools is pleased to report that our 2025-26 MCA results indicate small but consistent gains across subjects and grade levels.
Reading
MPS students in the 2025-26 school year showed an increase in proficiency to 42%, up from 41% proficient in 2024-25, and 40% proficient in SY23-24. We also continue to see an increase in the number of students taking the MCAs, with over 400 more students completing their reading MCA in 2026 than in spring of 2024.
Statewide, students in Minnesota showed a small decrease in reading proficiency on the MCAs, from 50% proficient in the 2023-24 school year to 49% proficient in 2025-26.
Mathematics
MPS students in 2026 also showed an increase in proficiency on their Math MCAs to 37%, an increase from 36% in the 2024-25 school year, and 35% in 2023-24. Over 450 more students completed the math MCA in spring of 2026 than the spring of 2024.
Statewide, students in Minnesota showed a small decrease in math proficiency on the MCAs, with 45% proficient in 2025-26 down from 46% in 2023-24.
Science
Students in grades 5, 8, and once during high school take the MCA Science assessment. In MPS, students decreased from 23% proficient in 2025 to 22% proficient in 2026. The the 2024-25 school year was the first year of the new MCA-IV implementation for science. Scores from before that school year are no longer comparable to current assessment results due to that change.
Both students in MPS and statewide saw a significant decrease in proficiency level on the MCAs when the assessment switched from the MCA-III to the MCA-IV. Statewide, students dropped from 40% proficient in 2024 to 26% proficient in 2026, a decrease of 14%. In MPS, student proficiency on the science MCAs decreased from 32% proficient in 2024 to 22% proficient in 2026, a decrease of 10%.