On the bright side:
“DoDEA is a leader in achievement for underrepresented students, with African American/Black and Hispanic/Latinx DoDEA students receiving among the highest assessment scores in the nation, outperforming their peers in 96% of states in 4th grade and 8th grade math, and 98% of states in reading on the most recent National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Similar performance trends exist on the NAEP among students with disabilities....”
page 15:
https://media.defense.gov/2022/Apr/13/2002976515/-1/-1/0/DOD-EQUITY-ACTION-PLAN.PDF
This may be true but there is an inherent conflict of interest of agencies seeking funding by publishing statistics they created or helped fund.
I would not be ready to believe it without a full detailed audit of the methodology of the statistics used.
Most government statistical reports are total garbage for this reason.