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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).
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For twelfth-graders whose parents had not finished high school, geography scores at the 75th and 90th percentiles were lower in 2010 when compared to 2001. For twelfth-graders whose parents had some education after high school or had graduated from college, geography scores at the 50th and 75th percentiles were lower in 2010 compared to 2001.

 

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

Read more information on how to interpret NAEP geography results, including how each student group is defined. Read more about the accommodated and non-accommodated samples for geography.