AUSTIN, Texas - Students displaced by 2005’s Hurricane Katrina are making academic gains in Texas schools.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has released results of a study that tracked the progress of Katrina students.

Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal states in August 2005, sending more than 46,000 young evacuees from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to Texas public schools.

TEA reported Tuesday that the children who were studied performed slightly better than their Texas peers in the same demographic groups.

When compared with all Texas students, the Katrina students do as well or better than the Texans on reading performance also the gap in mathematic performance narrowed substantially.