Kids boost test scores for 4th straight year

City kids in grades 3 to 8 posted modest gains on the 2017 state English and math exams, a fourth consecutive year of improvement, according to new data.

In math, 37.8 percent scored at proficient levels last year, an increase of 1.3 percentage points from 2016, according to the state figures released Tuesday.

A total of 40.6 percent were proficient in English — a rise of 2.6 points from the prior year.

At a press conference, Mayor de Blasio and schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña touted the gains as evidence that their school policies were taking hold and prodding progress.

“These improvements over the past four years represent painstaking work — student by student, classroom by classroom and school by school,” de Blasio said.

While testing numbers improved across all ethnic and racial groups, performance gaps between black and Hispanic kids and higher-performing whites and Asians remained glaring.

The city’s Asian students dominated their peers in math with 67.8 percent notching proficient scores. Whites came in second with 59 percent, Hispanics third at 25.3 and blacks fourth at 20.7.

Asians tied whites for top English marks at 61 percent. Hispanics were third at 29.7 and blacks fourth with 28.9.

The charter sector again posted superlative exam results, outpac- ing their traditional counterparts.

A total of 48 percent of city charter students were proficient in English, up markedly from 43 percent. In math, 51.7 percent hit the mark, up from 48.7.

“Once again, New York City’s public charter schools are driving the gains made by the city’s highest-need students,” said Families for Excellent Schools CEO Jeremiah Kittredge. “It’s long past time for the teachers union and their elected allies to stop stifling the growth of these excellent public schools by disparaging their results and denying them access to public space.”

Charter-sector leader Success Academy, which educates mostly poor minority kids, posted a staggering 95 percent proficiency rate in math and 84 percent in English.

“In fact, if Success Academy were its own school district, we would rank No. 1 in the state, based on exams — ahead of the wealthiest school districts in New York,” CEO Eva Moskowitz said in a message to parents and staffers.