“San Diego Unified students still haven’t made up the academic ground they lost after the pandemic, the district’s latest standardized test scores show,” wrote reporter Jakob McWhinney about last year’s statewide test scores.

According to the latest state standardized test scores, released on Thursday, that’s still true.

About 56 percent of San Diego Unified students met state standards in English – a two-percentage-point increase from the year before – and about 45 percent met standards in math, a nearly 1.5-percentage-point increase.

The increases and overall scores were higher than the countywide figures. But despite three years of at times halting growth, San Diego Unified students’ English and math scores were about one and three percentage points, respectively, below where they we

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