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Cloquet students make gains at most levels of MCA tests
Churchill School principal David Wangen gives bus students the lowdown on where to go before school, including the playground or inside for breakfast.
Districtwide, Cloquet saw a 3 percent increase in Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments scores in the 2023-24 school year.
Superintendent Michael Cary was happy to see the numbers mostly improving, four and a half years after the pandemic shut down Minnesota schools, but only three since students were faced with at least partial online classes.
"As we move further past the pandemic, we appear to be seeing the impacts slowly diminish," Cary said. "The turnaround has been slower in our upper grade levels, which makes sense since these students were all school age during the pandemic. These student...
