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Trends in Average Mathematics Scale Scores by Race/Ethnicity: White-Hispanic Gap

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KEY FINDINGS
  • At all three ages, Hispanic students' average scale scores in mathematics were higher in 2004 than in 1973.
  • Nine-year-olds. White and Hispanic students' average scale scores were higher in 2004 than in any previous assessment year. 
    • The White-Hispanic score gap was significantly smaller in 2004 (18 points) than it was in 1999 (26 points), but there was no significant difference in the score gap between the first and most recent assessment years.
  • Thirteen-year-olds. Average scale scores for White and Hispanic students were higher in 2004 than in any previous assessment year.
    • The White-Hispanic score gap decreased from 35 points in 1973 to 23 points in 2004.
  • Seventeen-year-olds. Average scale scores were higher in 2004 than in 1973 for White and Hispanic students.
    • The score gap between White and Hispanic students was significantly smaller in 2004 (24 points) than in 1973 (33 points).

Trends in average mathematics scale scores and score gaps for White students and Hispanic students ages 9, 13, and 17: 1973–2004 click for additional information

Trends in average mathematics scale scores and score gaps for White students and Hispanic students age 9: Selected years, 1973–2004

Trends in average mathematics scale scores and score gaps for White students and Hispanic students age 13: Selected years, 1973–2004

Trends in average mathematics scale scores and score gaps for White students and Hispanic students age 17: Selected years, 1973–2004

View data with standard errors for age 9, age 13, and age 17.

* Significantly different from 2004.
1 White average scale score minus Hispanic average scale score.
NOTE: Dashed lines represent extrapolated data. Score gaps are calculated based on differences between unrounded average scale scores.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), selected years, 1973–2004 Long-Term Trend Mathematics Assessments.

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Last updated 06 July 2005 (RF)