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

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KEY FINDINGS
  • At all three ages, Hispanic students' average reading scale scores were higher in 2004 than in 1975.
  • Nine-year-olds. White and Hispanic students' average scale scores were higher in 2004 than in 1975 and 1999.
    • The White-Hispanic reading score gap in 2004 (21 points) was significantly smaller than it was in 1975 (34 points).
  • Thirteen-year-olds. The average scale scores of White and Hispanic students were higher in 2004 than in 1975.
    • There was no statistically significant difference between the White-Hispanic gaps in 2004 and 1975.
  • Seventeen-year-olds. Hispanic students scored higher in 2004 than in 1975, while White students' average score in 2004 was not statistically different from that in 1975.
    • The score gap between White and Hispanic students was smaller in 2004 (29 points) than in 1975 (41 points).

Trends in average reading scale scores and score gaps for White students and Hispanic students ages 9, 13, and 17: 1971–2004 click for additional information

Trends in average reading scale scores and score gaps for White students and Hispanic students age 9 : Selected years, 1971–2004

Trends in average reading scale scores and score gaps for White students and Hispanic students age 13: Selected years, 1971–2004

Trends in average reading scale scores and score gaps for White students and Hispanic students age 17: Selected years, 1971–2004

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.
2 Data for Hispanic students are included in the overall national results but not reported as a separate racial/ethnic category in 1971.
NOTE: 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, 1971–2004 Long-Term Trend Reading Assessments.
Last updated 06 July 2005 (RF)