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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 Proficient in reading, grade 8 public schools: By state, various years, 1998–2005
 
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   Nation (public)1 31 30   31 * 30 * 29
             
Alabama 21 22   21   22   22
Alaska     27   26
Arizona 28 * 27 * 23   25   23
Arkansas 23 23   27   27   26
California 22 21   20   22   21
Colorado 30   30     36   32
Connecticut 42 * 40 * 37   37   34
Delaware 25 * 23 * 33 * 31   30
Florida 23 23   29   27   25
Georgia 25   25   26   26   25
Hawaii 19 19   20   22 * 18
Idaho   34   32   32
Illinois     35   31
Indiana   32   33 * 28
Iowa     36   34
Kansas 35   36   38   35   35
Kentucky 29 30   32   34   31
Louisiana 18 17   22   22   20
Maine 42 41   38   37   38
Maryland 31   31   32   31   30
Massachusetts 36 * 38 * 39   43   44
Michigan   32   32   28
Minnesota 37 36     37   37
Mississippi 19 19   20   21   18
Missouri 29 28   33   34   31
Montana 38   40   37   37   37
Nebraska   36   35   35
Nevada 24 23   19 * 21   22
New Hampshire     40   38
New Jersey       37   38
New Mexico 24 * 23 * 20   20   19
New York 34 32   32   35   33
North Carolina 31 * 30   32 * 29   27
North Dakota   35   38   37
Ohio   35   34   36
Oklahoma 29   30   28   30 * 25
Oregon 33 35   37   33   33
Pennsylvania   35   32   36
Rhode Island 30 32   30   30   29
South Carolina 22   22   24   24   25
South Dakota     39 * 35
Tennessee 26 27   28   26   26
Texas 28 27   31 * 26   26
Utah 31 31   32   32   29
Vermont   40   39   37
Virginia 33   33   37   36   36
Washington 32 32   37   33   34
West Virginia 27 * 28 * 29 * 25   22
Wisconsin 33 34     37   35
Wyoming 29 * 31 * 31 * 34   36
Other jurisdictions              
  District of Columbia 12 11   10   10   12
  DoDEA2 37 37   39   39   37
— 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.

.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.

More information about state performance is available in the State Profiles tool.

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