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Colorado’s 2026 CMAS scores: See how your school and district did

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. New state test results show math scores continued to rise for Colorado elementary and middle school students, with eighth graders making the biggest gains year over year . But literacy test results were uneven. Fourth and fifth graders’ reading and writing scores ticked up, while middle schoolers’ results fell across the board. The data, released Wednesday, comes from last spring’s Colorado Measures of Academic Progress, or CMAS. Students in grades 3 through 8 take the tests, which serve as a benchmark for how well Colorado kids are learning. The story of the latest scores “is one of progress, but also one of continued work ahead,” said Christina Wirth-Hawkins, chief assessment officer for the Colorado Department of Education. Middle school literacy likely falls into the second category. The percentage of sixth, seventh, and