Order		Cross- jurisdiction significant difference	Number of Jurisdictions Significantly			City average scale score			Suburb average scale score			Town average scale score			Rural average scale score
			higher	not different	lower	2011	2009	2011 - 2009	2011	2009	2011 - 2009	2011	2009	2011 - 2009	2011	2009	2011 - 2009
			higher	not different	lower
1 Texas	Texas	>	0	1	3	149	145	4	158	158	1	152	148	3	155	157	-1
2 Florida	Florida	x	0	1	3	144	145	-1	150	146	4	138	140	-2	154	150	4
National public	National public		1	1	3	142	139	2	155	152	2	152	149	3	156	154	2
3 Illinois	Illinois	<	2	2	0	136	133	4	150	152	-2	152	152	0	159	160	-1
4 California	California	<	2	2	0	135	134	2	145	138	6	144	132	11	146	146	-1
5 New York	New York	<	2	2	0	135	131	4	158	159	-1	161	163	-2	160	164	-4
NOTE: National public is 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 and 2011 Science Assessments.