Percentage of students at or above Proficient in mathematics, grade 8 public schools: By state, 1990–2003
Accommodations
not permitted
Accommodations
permitted
1990
1992
1996
2000
2000
2003
Nation (Public)
1
15
*
20
*
23
*
26
25
*
27
Alabama
9
*,**
10
*,**
12
16
16
16
Alaska
—
—
30
—
—
30
Arizona
13
*,**
15
*,**
18
21
20
21
Arkansas
9
*,**
10
*,**
13
*,**
14
*,**
13
*,**
19
California
12
*,**
16
*,**
17
*,**
18
*
17
*
22
Colorado
17
*,**
22
*,**
25
*,**
—
—
34
Connecticut
22
*,**
26
*,**
31
*
34
33
35
Delaware
14
*,**
15
*,**
19
*,**
—
—
26
Florida
12
*,**
15
*,**
17
*,**
—
—
23
Georgia
14
*,**
13
*,**
16
*,**
19
19
22
Hawaii
12
*,**
14
*,**
16
16
16
17
Idaho
18
*,**
22
*,**
—
27
26
28
Illinois
15
*,**
—
—
27
26
29
Indiana
17
*,**
20
*,**
24
*,**
31
29
31
Iowa
25
*,**
31
31
—
—
33
Kansas
—
—
—
34
34
34
Kentucky
10
*,**
14
*,**
16
*,**
21
20
24
Louisiana
5
*,**
7
*,**
7
*,**
12
*,**
11
*,**
17
Maine
—
25
*
31
32
30
29
Maryland
17
*,**
20
*,**
24
*
29
27
30
Massachusetts
—
23
*,**
28
*,**
32
*,**
30
*,**
38
Michigan
16
*,**
19
*,**
28
28
28
28
Minnesota
23
*,**
31
*,**
34
*,**
40
39
*
44
Mississippi
—
6
*,**
7
*,**
8
*,**
9
*,**
12
Missouri
—
20
*,**
22
*,**
22
*,**
21
*,**
28
Montana
27
*,**
—
32
37
36
35
Nebraska
24
*,**
26
*,**
31
31
30
32
Nevada
—
—
—
20
18
20
New Hampshire
20
*,**
25
*,**
—
—
—
35
New Jersey
21
*,**
24
*,**
—
—
—
33
New Mexico
10
*,**
11
*,**
14
13
12
*
15
New York
15
*,**
20
*,**
22
*,**
26
*,**
24
*,**
32
North Carolina
9
*,**
12
*,**
20
*,**
30
27
*,**
32
North Dakota
27
*,**
29
*,**
33
31
*,**
30
*,**
36
Ohio
15
*,**
18
*,**
—
31
30
30
Oklahoma
13
*,**
17
*,**
—
19
18
20
Oregon
21
*,**
—
26
*,**
32
31
32
Pennsylvania
17
*,**
21
*,**
—
—
—
30
Rhode Island
15
*,**
16
*,**
20
*
24
22
24
South Carolina
—
15
*,**
14
*,**
18
*,**
17
*,**
26
South Dakota
—
—
—
—
—
35
Tennessee
—
12
*,**
15
*,**
17
16
*
21
Texas
13
*,**
18
*,**
21
24
24
25
Utah
—
22
*,**
24
*,**
26
*,**
25
*,**
31
Vermont
—
—
27
*,**
32
31
*
35
Virginia
17
*,**
19
*,**
21
*,**
26
*,**
25
*,**
31
Washington
—
—
26
*,**
—
—
32
West Virginia
9
*,**
10
*,**
14
*,**
18
17
20
Wisconsin
23
*,**
27
*,**
32
—
—
35
Wyoming
19
*,**
21
*,**
22
*,**
25
*,**
23
*,**
32
Other Jurisdictions
District of Columbia
3
*,**
4
5
6
6
6
DDESS
2
—
—
21
27
24
27
DoDDS
3
—
—
23
*,**
27
*,**
27
*,**
35
— Not available.
* Significantly different from 2003 when only one jurisdiction or the nation is being examined.
** Significantly different from 2003 when using a multiple-comparison procedure based on all jurisdictions that participated both years. 1 National results for assessments prior to 2003 are based on the national sample, not on aggregated state samples. 2 Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools. 3 Department of Defense Dependents Schools (Overseas).
NOTE: Comparative performance results may be affected by changes in exclusion rates for students with disabilities and limited-English-proficient students in the NAEP samples.
In addition to allowing for accommodations, the accommodations-permitted results for national public schools (2000 and 2003) differ slightly from previous years' results and from previously reported results for 2000, due to changes in sample weighting procedures.
Significance tests were performed using unrounded numbers. NAEP sample sizes have increased in 2003 compared to previous years, resulting in smaller detectable differences than in previous assessments.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1990, 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2003 Mathematics Assessments.
Among the 42 states and jurisdictions that participated in both the 2000 and 2003 eighth-grade assessment, 18 showed an increase in the percentage of students at or above Proficient and none showed a decline.
The percentage of eighth-graders at or above Proficient was higher in 2003 than in 1990 for all 38 states and jurisdictions that participated in both years.
