Alabama: 2025 Assessment Results
Steady ELA, math gains since 2023
2025 State Test Score Results Data Series
Welcome! This newsletter is published by the Education Data Center and is designed to provide updates on 2025 state assessment data. We’re sharing high-level insights on ELA and math state summative assessment outcomes for students in grades 3-8. You can expect to find the following for each state:
Overall ELA and math achievement trends;
ELA and math results disaggregated by achievement level;
Maps of ELA and math results by district or county in 2025;
Top-performing school districts in ELA and math in 2025; and
ELA and math results by race/ethnicity in 2025.
Update! You can now find all available 2025 assessment data on the EDC’s website here. You can also try using Zelma, EDC’s AI assistant, to ask questions about the data for your state of interest.
This is our last week of state updates in 2025! Stay tuned for our Vermont and Utah updates in early 2026.
Trends Over Time
In mid-November, the Alabama State Department of Education released the 2025 school report card results, including outcomes on the state summative assessment for students in grades 3-8, the ACAP (some ACAP information was released earlier this fall as well). In 2021, the state established a new baseline for the ELA and math assessment with the first administration of the ACAP assessment. In Spring 2023, Alabama again updated the ELA cut scores. Given these changes, we are unable to compare the state’s progress to pre-pandemic results, but we include outcomes over time in the figure below to provide some context for general trends.
Overall, in 2025:
ELA: Approximately 59.8% of students in grades 3-8 reached proficiency in 2025, rising above 56% in 2024.
Math: Approximately 34.9% of students reached proficiency in 2025, above 32.4% in 2024.
Figure 1. ELA and Math Achievement Trends
Figure 2. Alabama Results by Achievement Level
A Closer Look at 2025
Figure 3. 2025 ELA Proficiency by School District
Figure 4. 2025 Math Proficiency by School District
Alabama School District Spotlight
Figure 5. Top-Performing School Districts in 2025 in ELA and Math
Alabama Results by Race/Ethnicity in 2025
Figure 6. Proficiency by Race/Ethnicity in 2025 in ELA and Math
Alabama State Assessment Background
Please see below for additional information on the state assessment data used for this summary. The data represent ELA and math outcomes for students in Grades 3-8 only.
Assessment Name: Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program (ACAP), 2021-2025; Scantron series, 2018-2019
Years Included in Analysis: 2018 - 2025
Additional Information: More information on the ACAP summative assessment can be found here: https://www.alabamaachieves.org/assessment/acap/.
Data presented here are specific to this state’s assessment and are not comparable to assessments administered by other states. For questions, please reach out to info@eddatacenter.org.