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Students show gains in IRI tests
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
elcie McCarthy takes time to takes time to read through the pages of one of the children’s stories created by author Thomas Macri as her family stopped by the Mountain Home Public Library on Friday. The child’s efforts to read came just days after the state released the results from the Idaho Reading Indicator tests that students in kindergarten through third grade completed last spring.
Photo by Brian S. Orban
Elementary students in Mountain Home and communities across the state showed steady gains made in their reading proficiency, according to data released last week by the Idaho Department of Education.
Twice a year, students in kindergarten to third grade complete the Idaho Reading Indicator, or IRI, test to measure their early literacy skills.