Table 114. | Percent of students at or above selected reading proficiency levels, by sex, race/ethnicity, and age: 1971 to 1999 |
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sex, | | | | | | | | | | race/ethnicity,| | | | | | | | | | and level | 1971 | 1975 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1990 | 1992 | 1994 | 1996 | 1999 _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ | 9-year-olds\1\ |____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|90.6 (0.5)|93.1 (0.4)| 94.6 (0.4)| 92.3 (0.3)| 92.7 (0.7)| 90.1 (0.9)|92.3 (0.4)| 92.1 (0.7)| 93.5 (0.6)| 93.0 (0.7) Level 200\3\.|58.7 (1.0)|62.1 (0.8)| 67.7 (1.0)| 61.5 (0.7)| 62.6 (1.3)| 58.9 (1.3)|62.0 (1.1)| 63.3 (1.4)| 64.2 (1.3)| 63.7 (1.4) Level 250\4\.|15.6 (0.6)|14.6 (0.6)| 17.7 (0.8)| 17.2 (0.6)| 17.5 (1.1)| 18.4 (1.0)|16.2 (0.8)| 16.5 (1.2)| 16.7 (0.8)| 15.9 (1.0) | | | | | | | | | | Male | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|87.9 (0.7)|91.0 (0.5)| 92.9 (0.5)| 90.4 (0.5)| 90.4 (0.9)| 87.9 (1.4)|90.2 (0.8)| 90.2 (1.0)| 91.6 (0.8)| 91.0 (1.1) Level 200\3\.|52.7 (1.2)|56.2 (1.0)| 62.7 (1.1)| 58.0 (0.9)| 58.4 (1.8)| 53.8 (1.9)|56.9 (1.6)| 59.2 (1.5)| 58.3 (2.0)| 61.0 (1.8) Level 250\4\.|12.0 (0.6)|11.5 (0.6)| 14.6 (0.9)| 15.9 (0.7)| 15.8 (1.4)| 16.1 (1.2)|14.2 (1.0)| 15.2 (1.2)| 14.1 (1.3)| 15.0 (1.3) | | | | | | | | | | Female | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|93.2 (0.5)|95.3 (0.3)| 96.4 (0.4)| 94.2 (0.4)| 94.9 (1.0)| 92.4 (1.1)|94.4 (0.6)| 94.0 (0.8)| 95.3 (0.6)| 95.0 (0.8) Level 200\3\.|64.6 (1.1)|68.1 (0.8)| 72.7 (1.0)| 65.2 (0.8)| 66.9 (1.4)| 64.2 (1.2)|67.3 (1.2)| 67.3 (1.9)| 69.9 (1.6)| 67.0 (1.6) Level 250\4\.|19.2 (0.8)|17.7 (0.8)| 20.7 (1.0)| 18.4 (0.7)| 19.1 (1.2)| 20.8 (1.2)|18.2 (1.1)| 17.8 (1.5)| 19.2 (1.3)| 17.0 (1.3) | | | | | | | | | | White\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|94.0 (0.4)|96.0 (0.3)| 97.1 (0.2)| 95.4 (0.3)| 95.1 (0.7)| 93.5 (0.9)|95.8 (0.5)| 95.7 (0.5)| 96.4 (0.6)| 97.0 (0.4) Level 200\3\.|65.0 (1.0)|69.0 (0.8)| 74.2 (0.7)| 68.6 (0.8)| 68.4 (1.6)| 66.0 (1.4)|69.3 (1.2)| 70.1 (1.5)| 71.4 (1.5)| 73.0 (1.6) Level 250\4\.|18.0 (0.7)|17.4 (0.7)| 21.0 (0.9)| 20.9 (0.7)| 20.3 (1.5)| 22.6 (1.2)|19.6 (1.0)| 19.7 (1.5)| 20.4 (1.1)| 20.0 (1.4) | | | | | | | | | | Black\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|69.7 (1.7)|80.7 (1.1)| 84.9 (1.4)| 81.3 (1.0)| 83.2 (2.4)| 76.9 (2.7)|79.6 (2.2)| 78.7 (2.4)| 84.5 (1.9)| 82.0 (2.5) Level 200\3\.|22.0 (1.5)|31.6 (1.5)| 41.3 (1.9)| 36.6 (1.5)| 39.4 (2.9)| 33.9 (3.4)|36.6 (2.2)| 38.3 (2.8)| 41.8 (3.2)| 36.0 (3.0) Level 250\4\.| 1.6 (0.5)| 2.0 (0.3)| 4.1 (0.6)| 4.5 (0.5)| 5.6 (1.2)| 5.2 (1.5)| 4.6 (0.8)| 4.4 (1.5)| 6.0 (1.1)| 4.0 (1.1) | | | | | | | | | | Hispanic | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.| --- --- |80.8 (2.5)| 84.5 (1.8)| 82.0 (2.1)| 85.6 (3.5)| 83.7 (1.8)|83.4 (2.6)| 80.4 (4.6)| 85.8 (2.4)| 87.0 (3.3) Level 200\3\.| --- --- |34.6 (3.0)| 41.6 (2.6)| 39.6 (2.2)| 45.9 (3.3)| 40.9 (2.7)|43.1 (3.5)| 37.1 (4.6)| 48.0 (3.8)| 44.0 (3.4) Level 250\4\.| --- --- | 2.6 (0.5)| 5.0 (1.4)| 4.3 (0.6)| 8.6 (2.3)| 5.8 (2.0)| 7.2 (2.3)| 6.4 (1.6)| 7.1 (3.2)| 6.0 (1.7) _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ | 13-year-olds\1\ _______________|____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.8 (0.0)|99.7 (0.1)| 99.9 (0.1)| 99.8 (0.0)| 99.9 (0.1)| 99.8 (0.1)|99.5 (0.3)| 99.3 (0.2)| 99.6 (0.2)| 99.6 (0.2) Level 200\3\.|93.0 (0.5)|93.2 (0.4)| 94.8 (0.4)| 93.9 (0.3)| 94.9 (0.6)| 93.8 (0.6)|92.7 (0.7)| 91.7 (0.6)| 92.1 (0.7)| 93.2 (0.7) Level 250\4\.|57.8 (1.1)|58.6 (1.0)| 60.7 (1.1)| 59.0 (0.6)| 58.7 (1.3)| 58.7 (1.0)|61.6 (1.4)| 60.4 (1.2)| 59.9 (1.3)| 60.9 (1.5) Level 300\6\.| 9.8 (0.5)|10.2 (0.5)| 11.3 (0.5)| 11.0 (0.4)| 10.9 (0.8)| 11.0 (0.6)|15.3 (0.9)| 14.1 (0.8)| 13.5 (1.0)| 14.5 (1.1) | | | | | | | | | | Male | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.6 (0.1)|99.6 (0.1)| 99.8 (0.1)| 99.7 (0.1)| 99.7 (0.2)| 99.7 (0.2)|99.2 (0.4)| 99.1 (0.3)| 99.3 (0.4)| 99.0 (0.3) Level 200\3\.|90.7 (0.7)|90.9 (0.5)| 93.4 (0.6)| 92.2 (0.4)| 92.8 (1.0)| 91.4 (0.9)|90.4 (1.1)| 88.8 (1.1)| 89.2 (1.2)| 91.0 (0.9) Level 250\4\.|51.6 (1.2)|51.7 (1.1)| 55.9 (1.2)| 54.0 (0.8)| 52.3 (1.9)| 52.4 (1.5)|55.5 (2.0)| 53.3 (1.9)| 53.4 (1.6)| 55.0 (1.9) Level 300\6\.| 7.3 (0.5)| 7.0 (0.4)| 9.1 (0.7)| 9.0 (0.4)| 8.6 (0.9)| 7.6 (0.8)|12.8 (1.1)| 10.1 (0.7)| 10.1 (1.0)| 11.0 (1.1) | | | | | | | | | | Female | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.9 (0.1)|99.9 (0.1)| 99.9 (0.0)| 99.9 (0.1)|100.0 --- | 99.9 --- |99.8 --- | 99.6 (0.2)| 99.8 --- |100.0 --- Level 200\3\.|95.2 (0.4)|95.5 (0.4)| 96.1 (0.4)| 95.8 (0.3)| 96.9 (0.6)| 96.3 (0.6)|95.0 (0.7)| 94.9 (0.6)| 94.9 (0.6)| 96.0 (0.7) Level 250\4\.|64.0 (1.1)|65.5 (1.2)| 65.4 (1.1)| 64.0 (0.7)| 65.0 (1.4)| 65.0 (1.5)|67.5 (1.4)| 67.9 (1.7)| 66.2 (1.6)| 66.0 (1.9) Level 300\6\.|12.3 (0.6)|13.5 (0.7)| 13.5 (0.6)| 13.2 (0.5)| 13.2 (0.9)| 14.5 (0.9)|17.7 (1.1)| 18.4 (1.1)| 16.8 (1.3)| 18.0 (1.7) | | | | | | | | | | White\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.9 (0.0)|99.9 0.0 |100.0 --- | 99.9 (0.0)| 99.9 --- | 99.9 (0.1)|99.8 (0.1)| 99.6 (0.2)| 99.7 (0.2)|100.0 (0.1) Level 200\3\.|96.2 (0.3)|96.4 (0.2)| 97.1 (0.2)| 96.2 (0.3)| 96.0 (0.6)| 96.0 (0.6)|95.9 (0.6)| 95.0 (0.7)| 95.5 (0.5)| 96.0 (0.6) Level 250\4\.|64.2 (0.9)|65.5 (0.9)| 67.8 (0.8)| 65.3 (0.7)| 63.7 (1.5)| 64.8 (1.2)|68.5 (1.4)| 68.1 (1.3)| 68.7 (1.4)| 69.0 (1.7) Level 300\6\.|11.3 (0.5)|12.1 (0.5)| 13.6 (0.6)| 13.1 (0.5)| 12.4 (0.9)| 13.3 (0.9)|18.1 (1.1)| 17.2 (1.0)| 16.9 (1.3)| 18.0 (1.4) | | | | | | | | | | Black\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|98.6 (0.3)|98.4 (0.3)| 99.3 (0.3)| 99.4 (0.2)| 99.8 --- | 99.4 --- |98.7 --- | 98.6 --- | 99.4 --- | 99.0 --- Level 200\3\.|74.2 (1.7)|76.9 (1.3)| 84.1 (1.7)| 85.5 (1.0)| 91.3 (2.2)| 87.7 (2.3)|82.0 (2.7)| 80.6 (2.3)| 81.5 (3.2)| 85.0 (2.3) Level 250\4\.|21.1 (1.2)|24.8 (1.6)| 30.1 (2.0)| 34.6 (1.2)| 40.2 (2.3)| 41.7 (3.5)|38.4 (2.7)| 35.6 (3.5)| 34.0 (3.9)| 38.0 (2.7) Level 300\6\.| 0.8 (0.2)| 1.5 (0.3)| 1.8 (0.5)| 2.8 (0.5)| 4.6 (1.2)| 4.6 (0.8)| 5.7 (1.4)| 3.9 (1.2)| 3.0 (0.9)| 5.0 (1.4) | | | | | | | | | | Hispanic | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.| --- --- |99.6 (0.3)| 99.7 --- | 99.5 --- | 99.2 --- | 99.1 (0.5)|98.1 --- | 98.7 --- | 98.6 --- |100.0 --- Level 200\3\.| --- --- |81.3 (2.3)| 86.8 (2.4)| 86.7 (1.5)| 87.4 (2.6)| 85.8 (2.4)|83.4 (3.5)| 82.4 (2.7)| 84.9 (3.2)| 89.0 (2.8) Level 250\4\.| --- --- |32.0 (3.6)| 35.4 (2.6)| 39.0 (2.1)| 38.0 (4.4)| 37.2 (2.9)|40.9 (5.1)| 33.9 (3.9)| 38.1 (3.7)| 43.0 (3.8) Level 300\6\.| --- --- | 2.2 (1.0)| 2.3 (0.6)| 4.1 (0.7)| 4.4 (1.9)| 3.9 (1.2)| 6.0 (1.9)| 4.3 (1.8)| 5.4 (1.7)| 6.0 (1.8) _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ | 17-year-olds\1\ _______________|____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.6 (0.1)|99.7 (0.1)| 99.9 (0.1)|100.0 (0.0)|100.0 --- | 99.9 --- |99.8 (0.1)| 99.8 (0.1)|100.0 --- |100.0 --- Level 200\3\.|96.0 (0.3)|96.4 (0.3)| 97.2 (0.3)| 98.3 (0.1)| 98.9 (0.3)| 98.1 (0.3)|97.1 (0.4)| 96.8 (0.5)| 97.5 (0.5)| 97.6 (0.4) Level 250\4\.|78.6 (0.9)|80.1 (0.7)| 80.7 (0.9)| 83.1 (0.5)| 85.7 (0.8)| 84.1 (1.0)|82.5 (0.8)| 80.8 (1.0)| 81.8 (0.8)| 82.0 (1.0) Level 300\6\.|39.0 (1.0)|38.7 (0.8)| 37.8 (1.1)| 40.3 (0.8)| 40.9 (1.5)| 41.4 (1.0)|43.2 (1.1)| 41.0 (1.2)| 39.4 (1.4)| 39.6 (1.4) | | | | | | | | | | Male | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.4 (0.1)|99.5 (0.2)| 99.8 (0.1)| 99.9 (0.0)|100.0 --- | 99.8 --- |99.7 (0.2)| 99.7 --- | 99.9 --- |100.0 --- Level 200\3\.|94.7 (0.4)|95.3 (0.4)| 96.3 (0.5)| 97.6 (0.2)| 98.5 (0.5)| 97.0 (0.6)|96.3 (0.7)| 95.5 (0.9)| 96.4 (0.8)| 97.0 (0.6) Level 250\4\.|74.4 (1.0)|75.6 (0.8)| 77.9 (1.0)| 79.6 (0.6)| 82.9 (1.4)| 79.7 (1.4)|78.4 (1.2)| 76.2 (1.5)| 77.0 (1.2)| 77.0 (1.5) Level 300\6\.|33.9 (1.1)|33.7 (1.0)| 35.0 (1.3)| 35.4 (0.8)| 37.1 (2.3)| 36.1 (1.5)|38.4 (1.6)| 35.6 (1.9)| 33.6 (1.9)| 34.0 (1.7) | | | | | | | | | | Female | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.8 (0.1)|99.8 (0.1)| 99.9 --- | 99.9 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- |99.9 --- | 99.9 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- Level 200\3\.|97.3 (0.3)|97.5 (0.4)| 98.1 (0.3)| 99.0 (0.1)| 99.3 (0.3)| 99.2 (0.3)|97.9 (0.4)| 98.0 (0.5)| 98.6 (0.5)| 99.0 (0.4) Level 250\4\.|82.6 (1.0)|84.3 (0.9)| 83.6 (1.0)| 86.8 (0.6)| 88.2 (1.1)| 88.6 (1.0)|86.8 (1.1)| 85.6 (1.2)| 86.8 (1.0)| 87.0 (1.0) Level 300\6\.|44.0 (1.2)|43.6 (0.9)| 40.7 (1.2)| 45.0 (0.9)| 44.4 (2.0)| 46.8 (1.3)|48.5 (1.5)| 46.5 (1.5)| 45.4 (1.7)| 45.0 (1.8) | | | | | | | | | | White\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.9 0.0 |99.9 (0.0)|100.0 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- |99.9 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- Level 200\3\.|97.9 (0.2)|98.6 (0.1)| 99.1 (0.1)| 99.0 (0.1)| 99.3 (0.3)| 98.8 (0.2)|98.6 (0.3)| 98.1 (0.4)| 98.5 (0.4)| 98.0 (0.4) Level 250\4\.|83.7 (0.7)|86.2 (0.6)| 86.9 (0.6)| 88.0 (0.5)| 88.7 (0.9)| 88.3 (1.1)|88.0 (0.9)| 86.2 (1.1)| 87.0 (0.8)| 87.0 (1.3) Level 300\6\.|43.2 (0.9)|43.9 (0.8)| 43.3 (1.1)| 46.3 (0.9)| 45.4 (1.6)| 47.5 (1.2)|50.1 (1.4)| 47.7 (1.4)| 46.0 (1.5)| 46.0 (1.5) | | | | | | | | | | Black\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|97.6 (0.4)|97.7 (0.8)| 99.0 (0.3)| 99.9 --- |100.0 --- | 99.6 --- |99.1 --- | 99.5 --- | 99.8 --- |100.0 --- Level 200\3\.|81.9 (1.5)|82.0 (1.8)| 85.6 (1.7)| 95.9 (0.5)| 98.0 (1.0)| 95.7 (1.3)|91.6 (1.6)| 93.4 (2.0)| 94.9 (1.9)| 95.0 (1.1) Level 250\4\.|40.1 (1.6)|43.0 (1.6)| 44.0 (2.0)| 65.7 (1.2)| 75.8 (2.4)| 69.1 (2.8)|61.4 (2.3)| 65.7 (4.1)| 67.9 (4.0)| 66.0 (2.5) Level 300\6\.| 7.7 (0.9)| 8.1 (0.7)| 7.1 (0.8)| 16.2 (0.9)| 24.9 (3.1)| 19.7 (1.8)|16.9 (2.5)| 21.5 (3.7)| 18.5 (2.2)| 17.0 (1.7) | | | | | | | | | | Hispanic | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.| --- --- |99.3 (0.4)| 99.8 --- | 99.8 --- | 99.9 --- | 99.7 --- |99.8 --- | 99.0 --- | 99.9 --- |100.0 --- Level 200\3\.| --- --- |88.7 (2.4)| 93.3 (1.8)| 95.6 (0.7)| 96.3 (2.4)| 95.9 (2.1)|93.4 (2.3)| 91.1 (3.4)| 94.1 (1.9)| 97.0 --- Level 250\4\.| --- --- |52.9 (4.1)| 62.2 (3.1)| 68.3 (2.1)| 71.5 (4.8)| 75.2 (4.7)|69.2 (4.0)| 63.0 (4.4)| 65.0 (4.2)| 68.0 (4.3) Level 300\6\.| --- --- |12.6 (2.7)| 16.5 (2.1)| 21.2 (2.3)| 23.3 (3.7)| 27.1 (3.3)|27.3 (3.2)| 20.1 (3.0)| 20.5 (4.8)| 24.0 (3.8) _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ |
---Not available. \1\Excludes persons not enrolled in school. \2\Able to follow brief written directions and carry out simple, discrete reading tasks. \3\Able to understand, combine ideas, and make inferences based on short uncomplicated passages about specific or sequentially related information. \4\Able to search for specific information, interrelate ideas, and make generalizations about literature, science, and social studies materials. \5\Data for 1971 include persons of Hispanic origin. \6\Able to find, understand, summarize, and explain relatively complicated literary and informational material. NOTE: Reading proficiency levels measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP Trends in Academic Progress, various years, by Educational Testing Service. (This table was prepared October 2001). |