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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 8 public schools: By state, various years, 1998–2005
 
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   Nation (public)1 72 71   74 * 72 * 71
             
Alabama 66 67   64   65   63
Alaska     67   70
Arizona 73 * 72 * 68   66   65
Arkansas 68 68   72   70   69
California 64 63   61   61   60
Colorado 76   77     78   75
Connecticut 82 * 81 * 76   77   74
Delaware 66 * 64 * 81   77 * 80
Florida 65 67   72 * 68   66
Georgia 68   68   70   69   67
Hawaii 60 59   64 * 61 * 58
Idaho   79   76   76
Illinois     77   75
Indiana   77 * 77 * 73
Iowa     79   79
Kansas 81   81   81   77   78
Kentucky 74 74   78   78   75
Louisiana 64 63   68   64   64
Maine 84 83   82   79   81
Maryland 72   70   73   71   69
Massachusetts 80 79 * 81   81   83
Michigan   77   75   73
Minnesota 81 78     78   80
Mississippi 61 62   67 * 65 * 60
Missouri 76 75   82 * 79   76
Montana 83   83   85   82   82
Nebraska   83 * 77   80
Nevada 69 * 70 * 62   63   63
New Hampshire     81   80
New Jersey       79   80
New Mexico 70 * 71 * 64   62   62
New York 78 76   76   75   75
North Carolina 76 * 74 * 76 * 72 * 69
North Dakota   82   81   83
Ohio   82   78   78
Oklahoma 80 * 80 * 76 * 74   72
Oregon 78 * 78 * 80 * 75   74
Pennsylvania   77   76   77
Rhode Island 74 76 * 73   71   71
South Carolina 65   66   68   69   67
South Dakota     82   82
Tennessee 71 71   71   69   71
Texas 76 * 74 * 73 * 71   69
Utah 77 * 77 * 75   76 * 73
Vermont   82 * 81   79
Virginia 78   78   80   79   78
Washington 77 76   78   76   75
West Virginia 74 * 75 * 77 * 72 * 67
Wisconsin 79 78     77   77
Wyoming 76 * 76 * 78   79   81
Other jurisdictions              
   District of Columbia 44 44   48   47   45
   DoDEA2 80 * 79 * 88 * 85   84
— 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 1992, 1994, or 2000. View complete data with standard errors for grade 8.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), various years, 1998–2005 Reading Assessments

.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.
 
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