Order		Cross- jurisdiction significant difference	Number of Jurisdictions Significantly			White percent at or above Basic	Hispanic percent at or above Basic	White - Hispanic Gap percent at or above Basic
			higher	not different	lower	2009
			higher	not different	lower
1 Austin	Austin	x	0	9	4	96	54	42
2 San Diego	San Diego	x	0	11	2	89	50	39
3 Houston	Houston	x	0	11	2	91	53	38
4 Los Angeles	Los Angeles	x	0	11	2	76	39	37
Large city	Large city		0	13	2	85	48	37
5 Charlotte	Charlotte	x	0	12	1	94	58	36
6 New York City	New York City	x	0	11	2	83	47	36
7 Cleveland	Cleveland	x	0	13	0	61	26	35
National public	National public	x	1	12	2	86	52	34
8 Fresno	Fresno	x	0	13	0	66	34	32
9 Chicago	Chicago	x	1	12	0	78	48	30
10 Milwaukee	Milwaukee	x	0	13	0	81	52	29
11 Boston	Boston	x	1	12	0	85	58	28
12 Jefferson County (KY)	Jefferson County (KY)	x	0	13	0	85	58	26
13 Miami-Dade	Miami-Dade	<	6	7	0	92	70	22
14 Philadelphia	Philadelphia	<	5	8	0	61	40	21
N/A Detroit	Detroit	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡	38	‡
N/A Baltimore City	Baltimore City	‡	‡	‡	‡	60	‡	‡
N/A Atlanta	Atlanta	‡	‡	‡	‡	96	‡	‡
‡ 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.