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Percentage of students within each reading achievement level, grade 8 public schools: By state, 2003

The bars below contain percentages of public-school students at each of the three NAEP reading achievement levels—Basic, Proficient, and Advanced—as well as the proportion of students below Basic. Each population of students is aligned at the point where the Proficient category begins so that they may be compared at Proficient and above.

Jurisdictions are listed alphabetically within three groups: the percentage at or above Proficient was higher than, not found to be significantly different from, or lower than the nation.

¹ Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools. 
² Department of Defense Dependents Schools (Overseas). 
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
The shaded bars are graphed using unrounded numbers.
NAEP sample sizes have increased since 2002 compared to previous years, resulting in smaller detectable differences than in previous assessments.
See more information about the reading achievement levels.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2003 Reading Assessment.

Major Finding

• At grade 8, 25 states and other jurisdictions had higher percentages of students at or above Proficient than the nation, 11 had percentages that were not found to be significantly different from the nation, and 17 had percentages that were lower than the nation.

View the percentage of students at or above Proficient in reading at grade 8, by state 1998–2003.

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Last updated 5 February 2004 (JM)