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District Science Results by Eligibility for the National School Lunch Program

Compared to students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch in large central city schools…

  • at grade 4, eligible students in Austin, Houston, and New York City had higher average scores, while eligible students in Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles had lower average scores.
  • at grade 8, eligible students in Boston had higher average scores, while eligible students in Atlanta and Los Angeles had lower average scores.

Nation – district gaps narrower when comparing low-income students

  • At both grades 4 and 8, the gap in average scores between the nation and the individual districts for all students ranged from 2 to 30 points, with the nation's score higher. When the comparison between nation and district at both grades is based only on low-income students, the gaps in average scores ranged from almost none to 19 points, with the nation's score higher.
NAEP fourth-grade science score gaps for all students and for low-income students in 2005, by urban district 

NAEP fourth-grade science score gaps for all students and for low-income students in 2005, by urban district

# The estimate rounds to zero.
1 The score point difference between Austin and the nation was not statistically significant when comparing all students or when comparing low-income students.
NOTE: The average score for all students in the nation was 149 and was 135 for low-income students. In NAEP, low-income students are students identified as eligible for free or reduced-price school lunch. Score gaps are calculated based on differences between unrounded average scores. View complete data with standard errors for the nation and in each district.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2005 Trial Urban District Science Assessment.

Learn more about the NAEP reporting groups on the NAEP website.

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