In other words, the chart claimed the kindergarteners in the 2018-19 school year were 27 percent proficient while the ones in the 2021-22 year were doing significantly better — 67 percent. That jump of 40 points among kindergarteners is bigger than it was observed nationally, where it went from 36 percent at the beginning of the year to 60 percent at year’s end. But the corrected numbers simply show North Carolina’s kindergarteners and first-graders made that progress over the course of the school year — which is the whole point of education — than those across the country did.