In April 1969, the year before school district reorganization, students in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania were given the 1965 version of the Stanford Achievement Test. In April 1976, the sixth year of desegregation, students were given the 1973 version of the Stanford Achievement Test. This paper presents seven charts comparing the 1969 scores in Paragraph Meaning for grades one to six and the 1976 scores for Reading Comprehension for grades one to six. The following trends are observed: At all six grade levels the 1969 scores are amazingly similar. The lowest scores are in those buildings where the majority of students are black. The few high scores are in those buildings where the majority of students are white. Practically all of the buildings in 1969 were far below the national norm. At each grade level, with the exception of fifth grade, only one or two buildings were at or above the national norm. The pattern of scores for 1976 not only varies considerably from the 1969 pattern but it also varies among grade levels. Moreover, the range in scores in 1969 was greater than the range of scores in 1976. The 1976 scores for children in grades one, two and three show considerable increases above the 1969 scores and show significant achievement patterns in comparison to national norms. Children in the upper elementary grades did not have the benefits of two years of kindergarten and scores for these children begin to more closely resemble the 1969 scores. However, at no grade are the 1976 scores as low as the 1969 scores for black students. (Author/AM)