Percentage of students at or above Proficient in reading, grade 4 public schools: By state, 1992–2003
Accommodations
Accommodations
not permitted
permitted
1992
1994
1998
1998
2002
2003
Nation (Public)
1
27
*
28
29
28
*
30
30
Alabama
20
23
24
24
22
22
Alaska
28
Arizona
21
24
22
22
22
23
Arkansas
23
*,**
24
*
23
*
23
*
26
28
California
19
18
*
20
20
21
21
Colorado
25
*,**
28
*,**
34
33
37
Connecticut
34
*,**
38
46
43
43
43
Delaware
24
*,**
23
*,**
25
*,**
22
*,**
35
33
Florida
21
*,**
23
*,**
23
*,**
22
*,**
27
*
32
Georgia
25
26
24
24
28
27
Hawaii
17
*
19
17
*
17
*
21
21
Idaho
28
32
30
Illinois
31
Indiana
30
33
33
33
Iowa
36
35
35
33
35
35
Kansas
34
34
34
33
Kentucky
23
*,**
26
*
29
29
30
31
Louisiana
15
*,**
15
*,**
19
17
20
20
Maine
36
41
*,**
36
35
35
36
Maryland
24
*,**
26
*,**
29
27
*
30
32
Massachusetts
36
36
37
35
*
47
*
40
Michigan
26
*
28
28
30
32
Minnesota
31
*,**
33
*,**
36
35
37
37
Mississippi
14
*,**
18
18
17
16
18
Missouri
30
*
31
29
*
28
*,**
32
34
Montana
35
37
37
36
35
Nebraska
31
34
34
32
Nevada
21
20
21
20
New Hampshire
38
36
38
37
40
New Jersey
35
33
*
39
New Mexico
23
21
22
21
21
19
New York
27
*,**
27
*,**
29
*
29
*
35
34
North Carolina
25
*,**
30
28
*
27
*
32
33
North Dakota
35
38
*,**
34
32
Ohio
27
*,**
34
34
Oklahoma
29
30
*
30
*
26
26
Oregon
28
26
31
31
Pennsylvania
32
30
34
33
Rhode Island
28
32
32
31
32
29
South Carolina
22
*
20
*,**
22
22
*
26
26
South Dakota
33
Tennessee
23
27
25
25
25
26
Texas
24
26
29
28
28
27
Utah
30
30
28
*
28
*
33
32
Vermont
39
37
Virginia
31
26
*,**
30
*
30
*
37
35
Washington
27
*,**
29
*
30
35
33
West Virginia
25
26
29
28
28
29
Wisconsin
33
35
34
34
33
Wyoming
33
32
30
29
*
31
34
Other Jurisdictions
District of Columbia
10
8
*,**
10
10
10
10
DDESS
2
32
32
34
35
DoDDS
3
28
*,**
34
33
33
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 2002 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: State-level data were not collected in 2000. 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 at grade 4 (1998–2003) differ slightly from previous years results, and from previously reported results for 1998, due to changes in sample weighting procedures.
Significance tests were performed using unrounded numbers. NAEP sample sizes have increased since 2002 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), 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2003 Reading Assessments.
Of the 46 states and other jurisdictions that participated in both the 2002 and 2003 fourth-grade reading assessments, Florida showed an increase and Massachusetts showed a decrease in the percentage of students at or above Proficient.
The percentage of fourth-graders at or above Proficient increased in 17 of the 42 states and jurisdictions that participated in both the 1992 and 2003 assessments; none showed a decline since 1992.
