More of Baltimore’s children came “ready” for kindergarten this year than last year, although the city still lags the state by almost 10 percentage points.

The statistics come from a new Baltimore City schools’ report that uses uniform statewide reporting from teachers to gauge children’s academic, social and physical readiness for school.

The report found that about 73% of the kindergartners in Baltimore public schools were deemed “fully ready” for the grade, compared with 83% of children across Maryland. Just over 65% of last year’s kindergartners in Baltimore got the “fully ready” label, and just under 75% of kindergartners statewide.

About two-thirds of Baltimore’s roughly 7,000 public-school kindergartners attended pre-k in Baltimore public schools, according to the report. Children with that background did the best on the readiness assessment, with just over 77% “fully ready.”

Kindergartners who attended a family day care operation or were cared for informally by parents or relatives were deemed less ready for school than either their public pre-k peers or those who had attended a Head Start program, a child care center or a private nursery school, the report said.

Children from poor families on average enter school behind those from better-off families in terms of academic skills, according to a large body of research. More than 4 out of 5 Baltimore kindergartners come from poor or near-poor families, school system statistics show.