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 Florida	Florida	>	0	0	4	163	144	19
2 Texas	Texas	>	1	0	3	168	136	31
3 New York	New York	x	2	1	1	161	130	31
National public	National public		2	2	1	162	130	32
4 Illinois	Illinois	x	2	1	1	164	129	35
5 California	California	<	4	0	0	157	121	36
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 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 Science Assessment.