- More Writing Results

Grade 8 National Results

View student performance by various student groups, including gender, race/ethnicity, type of school (public or private), family income level (based on eligibility for the National School Lunch Program), parental education, type of location, students with disabilities (SD), and English language learners (ELL).
Below each figure, click the button for "chart options" to see the data displayed in other chart formats.
To conduct a significance test using the NAEP Data Explorer, click on the link under each table below.

Student Disability Status

English Language Learners

For eighth-graders eligible for free or reduced-price school lunch through the National School Lunch Program, writing scores ranged from 92 at the 10th percentile to 176 at the 90th percentile.

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Read specific descriptions of what eighth-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.