Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) celebrated the nearly one million Florida students deemed at or above their respective grade levels in the state’s new system, which shifts away from end-of-year testing.

The 2024-25 school year reported that 57% of Florida students performed at their grade level or higher. This was 114,000 more students than the previous school year, when only 36% of students had reached their grade level performance.