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Compare Reading Achievement-Level Results for Your State Across Years

  • Between 2003 and 2005, the percentage of fourth-graders performing at or above Basic increased in 4 states and jurisdictions and decreased in 2 states. In addition, the percentage of fourth-graders performing at or above Proficient increased in 1 state and decreased in 1 state during the same period.
  • Between 1992 and 2005, the percentage of fourth-graders at or above Basic increased in 15 of the 42 states and jurisdictions that participated in both years, and decreased in 3 states. Between 1992 and 2005, the percentage of fourth-graders at or above Proficient increased in 21 states.
  • Between 2003 and 2005, the percentage of eighth-graders performing at or above Basic increased in 1 state and decreased in 6 states, and the percentage performing at or above Proficient decreased in 4 states. 
  • Between 1998 and 2005, the percentage of eighth-graders at or above Basic increased in 4 of the 38 states and jurisdictions that participated in both years, and decreased in 11 states. Between 1998 and 2005, the percentage of students performing at or above Proficient increased in 3 states and decreased in 4 states.
Percentage of students at or above Basic in reading, grade 4 public schools: By state, various years, 1992–2005   
 
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   Nation (public)1 60 * 59 * 61 58 * 62   62 * 62
             
Alabama 51 52 56 56   52   52   53
Alaska     58   58
Arizona 54 52 53 51   51   54   52
Arkansas 56 * 54 * 55 * 54 * 58   60   63
California 48 44 * 48 48   50   50   50
Colorado 64 * 59 * 69   67     69   69
Connecticut 69 68 78 * 76 * 74 * 74   71
Delaware 57 * 52 * 57 * 53 * 71   71   73
Florida 53 * 50 * 54 * 53 * 60 * 63   65
Georgia 57   52 * 55   54   59   59   58
Hawaii 48 * 46 * 45 * 45 * 52   53   53
Idaho 67   67   64 * 69
Illinois     61   62
Indiana 68 66   68   66   64
Iowa 73 * 69 70 67   69   70   67
Kansas     71 * 70   68   66   66
Kentucky 58 * 56 * 63 62   64   64   65
Louisiana 46 * 40 * 48 44 * 50   49   53
Maine 75 * 75 * 73 72   72   70   71
Maryland 57 * 55 * 61   58 * 62   62   65
Massachusetts 74 * 69 * 73 * 70 * 80   73 * 78
Michigan 62 63 62   64   64   63
Minnesota 68 65 * 69 67 * 73   69   71
Mississippi 41 * 45 48 47   45   49   48
Missouri 67 62 * 63 61 * 66   68   67
Montana   69   73   72   71   69   71
Nebraska 68 66   68   66   68
Nevada 53 51   54   52   52
New Hampshire 76 70 75 74     75   74
New Jersey 69   65         70   68
New Mexico 55 49 52 51   52   47   51
New York 61 * 57 * 62 * 62 * 67   67   69
North Carolina 56 * 59 62 58   67 * 66 * 62
North Dakota 74 73   71   69   72
Ohio 63 *   68   69   69
Oklahoma 67 *   66 * 66 * 60   60   60
Oregon 61 58   66   63   62
Pennsylvania 68 61 *   66   65   69
Rhode Island 63 65 65 64   65   62   62
South Carolina 53   48 * 55   53   58   59   57
South Dakota     69   70
Tennessee 57 58 58 57   58   57   59
Texas 57 * 58 * 63 59   62   59 * 64
Utah 67 64 62 * 62 * 69   66   68
Vermont   73   73   72
Virginia 67 * 57 * 64 * 62 * 71   69   72
Washington 59 * 63 * 64 * 70   67   70
West Virginia 61 58 62 60   65 * 65 * 61
Wisconsin 71 71 72 * 69     68   67
Wyoming 71   68   65 * 64 * 68   69   71
Other jurisdictions              
  District of Columbia 30 24 * 28 * 27 * 31   31   33
  DoDEA2     68 * 66 * 72   71 * 75
— Not available. The jurisdiction did not participate or did not meet the minimum participation guidelines for reporting.
Significantly different from 2005.
1 National results for assessments prior to 2002 are based on the national sample, not on aggregated state samples.
2 Department of Defense Education Activity (domestic and overseas).
NOTE: State-level data were not collected in 2000. View complete data with standard errors for grade 4.

.Sample sizes and rounding can result in apparent inconsistencies. For example, in the table above for both 2003 and 2005, the percentage of fourth-grade students performing at or above Basic in public schools nationwide is 62, yet the numbers are marked as being statistically different. The actual unrounded numbers are 61.57 in 2003 and 62.47 in 2005, a 0.9 percentage point difference that is statistically significant, due in part to the large numbers of students who participated in NAEP in those two years.
 
More information about the state NAEP reading assessment and achievement levels is available on the NAEP website.

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