Order		Cross- jurisdiction significant difference	Number of Jurisdictions Significantly			White average scale score	Hispanic average scale score	White - Hispanic Gap average scale score
			higher	not different	lower	2009
			higher	not different	lower
1 Austin	Austin	>	0	1	12	183	133	49
2 Houston	Houston	x	0	5	8	174	133	41
3 San Diego	San Diego	x	1	4	8	169	128	40
4 Charlotte	Charlotte	x	1	4	8	174	136	38
Large city	Large city		1	7	7	163	127	36
5 Los Angeles	Los Angeles	x	1	10	2	152	119	33
National public	National public	<	4	8	3	162	130	32
6 New York City	New York City	x	1	12	0	159	127	31
7 Boston	Boston	<	4	9	0	161	134	26
8 Chicago	Chicago	x	4	9	0	154	128	26
9 Fresno	Fresno	<	4	9	0	144	118	26
10 Jefferson County (KY)	Jefferson County (KY)	x	4	9	0	163	138	25
11 Milwaukee	Milwaukee	<	4	9	0	158	132	25
12 Miami-Dade	Miami-Dade	<	5	8	0	169	146	23
13 Cleveland	Cleveland	<	4	9	0	136	113	23
14 Philadelphia	Philadelphia	<	5	8	0	141	120	21
N/A Detroit	Detroit	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	122	‡
N/A Baltimore City	Baltimore City	‡	‡	‡	‡	143	‡	‡
N/A Atlanta	Atlanta	‡	‡	‡	‡	181	‡	‡
‡ Reporting standards not met.
NOTE: Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, and Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin. Prior to 2011, students in the “two or more races” category were categorized as “unclassified”. National public and Large city are not included in sorting the jurisdictions. Score differences are calculated based on differences between unrounded scores.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2009 Science Assessment.