NAEP Data Explorer

Institute of Education Sciences U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics

Quick Start provides fast access to NAEP data.

There are thousands of variables in the NAEP database. Quick Start provides convenient access to the major reporting variables used in NAEP reports.

You can choose to see just the latest year's data or data for all years at once. For other combinations of years, go to the "Advanced" mode.

You can see NAEP results cross-tabulated by two variables (e.g., by race/ethnicity data and gender). If you want to cross-tabulate by three or more variables, go to the "Advanced" mode.

You can perform significance tests on the data in your tables.

You can see all available performance measures for the groups you choose (average scale scores, achievement levels, percentiles, percentages of the chosen variable, and standard deviation).

You can print results or copy them to another document.

To produce a table of data, go to the "Select Criteria" screen, follow the numbered steps, and click on "Go to Results." From the results, you can create a cross-tabulation, choose another performance measure, or run a significance test.

Click the "Select Criteria" tab to begin.

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Select one or more options from each of the categories below. You may follow the numbered steps, or make selections in any order you like. For more information about a category, click on the information symbol (

) next to its name.
Quick Start displays the variables available for the most recent year of the subject you have selected.

Grade:

Subject:

NAEP assesses all of these subjects at the national level. At the state level, reading, mathematics, science, and writing are assessed. At the district level, reading, mathematics, and writing are assessed. You can select only one subject at a time. A new mathematics framework was introduced at grade 12 in 2005. Data based on the new framework, which can be selected by choosing "Math - New Framework," are not comparable to data from earlier mathematics assessments.

Jurisdiction(s):

Variable(s):

NAEP collects and reports data about hundreds of variables from assessment instruments and background questionnaires. This list consists of a selection of the most important of those variables. These are the major reporting variables for data reported to the public in print reports and web publications. They include overall student achievement, gender, race/ethnicity, participation in Title I, eligibility for free/reduced-price school lunch, and level of parental education. For more variables, use the Advanced mode.

Year(s):

I want to see results for

most recent year only all years available

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Select the variables that you are interested in including in your table. You may also select which samples to display by selecting from the Years Available columns.

Variables Available:	Years Available:

Legend Data are available for this variable/sample combination. Data will be displayed for this variable/sample combination.

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