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Grade 12 National Results

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 Writing scores for White students, Asian students, and students of two or more races were higher than the scores for their Black and Hispanic peers at all five selected percentiles.

Beginning in 2011, additional information on students’ race/ethnicity was collected from schools so that results could be reported separately for Asian students, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students, and students categorized as being two or more races (multiracial). These categorizations are consistent with guidelines from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. In order to allow comparisons of 2011 results for racial/ethnic groups to previous assessments, the Asian and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander students are combined into a single Asian/Pacific Islander category. Read more about this change.

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

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