2+ day, 17+ min ago (900+ words) The Pennsylvania Education Department released the latest round of PSSA and Keystone test results for 2025. Lehigh Valley schools placed near the top and close to the bottom of the lists for math and English proficiency. The PSSAs are taken for math and English by students at grade levels 3 through 8, while the Keystone exam is taken by students at grade level 11. About 704,000 students took the elementary level exams and about 122,000 11th graders took the Keystone exam, which adds a biology component in addition to the language arts and algebra portions. The results were mixed throughout Pennsylvania and in the Lehigh Valley. Statewide, elementary level math scores inched up by 1.3 percentage points in math, but English proficiency dropped 4.5 percent, to 48.5 percent in this year's round of tests. The 36,000 primary school pupils tested in the 17 public school districts in the Lehigh Valley echoed those…...