INDIANAPOLIS - Wednesday, August 11th, The Indiana Department of Education presented statewide instructional mode data for the 2020-21 school year.

According to statewide data, nearly 50 percent of Indiana schools had a greater than 90 percent of students receiving in-person instruction all school year. Meanwhile, nearly 80 percent of schools had greater than 60 percent of students in person all year.

When compared with statewide data from Indiana’s spring ILEARN assessment, the data reflects that student performance is the strongest when students are learning in the classroom full-time.