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Grade 12 National Results

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  • View student performance by various student groups, including gender, race/ethnicity, parental education, students with disabilities (SD), and English Language Learners (ELL).
  • Move the cursor over data points to see more detail.
  • When viewing average score figures, click on a group within the legend to show detailed information about its performance.
  • When viewing the achievement level or percentile figures, use the drop down menu to show data for each group.
  • Below each figure, click the button for "chart options" to see the data displayed in other chart formats.
Average Scores
Achievement Levels
Percentiles

For twelfth-graders who had a parent graduate from college, the civics score at the 75th percentile was lower in 2010 when compared to 2006.

Read specific descriptions of what eighth-graders should know and be able to do at the Basic, Proficient, and Advanced civics achievement levels.

Read more information on how to interpret NAEP civics results, including how each student group is defined.