Student Groups and Trends Reports

NCES has monitored long-term trends in reading and mathematics achievement for the nation’s 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds since the 1970s.

Since 1996, NAEP results have been reported in mathematics, reading, writing, and science at the state level. Read more about state assessments.

These studies report on performance in mathematics by fourth- and eighth-grade students in public schools in Puerto Rico.

The Trial Urban District Assessment program began in 2002 and continues to report mathematics and reading student achievement in selected urban districts.

These reports provide information about the types of courses that graduates take, how many credits they earn, their grade point averages, and the relationship between coursetaking patterns and achievement.

These reports provide information about the academic performance in reading and mathematics of American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) fourth- and eighth-graders as well as their exposure to Native American culture.

These two studies reported on the performance of private school students in 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2005.

This study of America's charter schools and their students was part of the 2003 NAEP assessments in reading and mathematics at the fourth-grade level.

This study explored the educational progress in the five most populous states in the nation in mathematics, reading, and science in 2011.