WHEELING — As West Virginia public school students advance through their schooling, their math assessment scores drop. What students score in elementary school usually is higher than in middle school, which is higher than in high school.

Yet those students see their math scores plummet between middle school and high school, and that is testing local educators to find their own solutions to the problem.

West Virginia students take the state’s General Summative Assessment tests in elementary and middle schools. In high school, they use the required Scholastic Aptitude Test standardized math survey. With that move comes math scores in 11th grade much lower than when students take the test in eighth grade.

In Ohio County last year, 43% of eighth graders were proficient in math, but only 27%

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