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Grade 8 National Results

View student performance by various student groups, including gender, race/ethnicity, type of school (public or private), family income level (based on eligibility for the National School Lunch Program), 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.

Student Disability Status

English Language Learners

For eighth-graders whose parents had graduated from college, the average reading score in 2011 was higher than in 1992 and 2009. For students whose parents had not finished high school or had graduated from high school, average scores in 2011 were higher than in 1992 but not significantly different from 2009.

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

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