Testing is a big part in schools and inequality of education affects testing scores in the United States. In recent years, most ages in schools are scoring the best scores ever in history on standardized tests. These ages include nine year olds, 13 year olds, and 17 year olds. Although, the problem is that this information is coming from schools where the majority of children come from middle-class income families. Inequality in schools really starts to be a problem when a school contains more than seventy-five percent of children living in poverty. These schools that contain this many children living in poverty are showing the lowest standardized testing scores. These schools make up one-fifth of all United States schools. (Barbones, 2015)
