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NAEP Technical DocumentationTarget Population of the 2000 State Assessment

The NAEP state assessment targets public school students enrolled in the fourth or eighth grades. All 50 states and the District of Columbia are eligible to participate in the state assessment, as well as territories and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools. The state assessment also includes separate jurisdictions of Department of Defense Education Activity schools. One jurisdiction covers the department's domestic schools (DDESS), while another jurisdiction covers its international schools (DoDDS). Participation in the 2000 assessment included 41 states, the District of Columbia, DDESS, DoDDS, and three U.S. territories, as detailed on the web page Number of Schools and Enrollment of All Students and Testable Students for Participating Jurisdictions.

Sampling parameters for the grade 4 and 8 public school frames, state assessment: By jurisdiction, 2000

Jurisdiction	Number of fourth-grade schools	Number of fourth-grade students	Number of eighth-grade schools	Number of eighth-grade students
Total	50,500	3,593,000	25,900	3,542,000
Alaska	380	10,000	300	10,400
Alabama	790	59,200	520	56,500
Arkansas	540	36,200	360	37,000
Arizona	820	65,100	480	62,700
California	5,210	474,000	2,130	425,500
Colorado	850	52,900	390	53,700
Connecticut	610	42,300	240	38,800
Delaware	90	9,100	60	8,700
Florida	1,750	174,300	950	183,900
Georgia	1,090	104,800	440	104,300
Hawaii	180	14,500	60	14,000
Iowa	750	35,800	420	38,800
Indiana	340	18,100	200	19,400
Illinois	2,400	152,800	1,580	149,800
Indiana	1,150	77,600	490	76,200
Kansas	800	34,700	440	36,600
Kentucky	830	51,200	440	51,600
Louisiana	820	59,000	490	58,900
Massachusetts	1,080	76,900	430	70,700
Maryland	820	62,600	280	61,400
Maine	390	16,700	240	17,300
Michigan	2,120	134,500	1,000	132,100
Minnesota	1,120	65,600	820	74,100
Missouri	1,130	69,300	680	70,640
Mississippi	490	41,000	340	40,600
Montana	460	12,100	290	13,200
North Carolina	1,210	99,300	600	94,500
North Dakota	320	8,400	230	9,200
Nebraska	880	21,500	510	23,600
New Hampshire	260	16,900	130	16,200
New Jersey	1,310	101,000	660	92,600
New Mexico	400	25,000	180	26,000
Nevada	280	23,000	110	22,400
New York	2,270	218,700	1,070	203,600
Ohio	2,190	139,500	1,030	146,100
Oklahoma	940	49,200	620	50,200
Oregon	770	42,500	360	42,900
Pennsylvania	1,810	140,400	760	139,700
Rhode Island	190	12,300	50	11,600
South Carolina	570	51,700	270	52,300
South Dakota	400	9,700	290	10,900
Tennessee	950	73,100	560	66,800
Texas	3,540	290,400	2,070	297,900
Utah	440	35,690	170	38,500
Virginia	1,090	88,200	420	87,900
Vermont	240	8,200	130	8,300
Washington	1,280	78,400	700	82,000
Wisconsin	1,150	60,900	570	66,600
West Virginia	530	21,900	220	22,900
Wyoming	220	7,100	100	8,100
Other jurisdictions
District of Columbia	100	6,200	30	4,000
DDESS1	40	3,300	10	1,700
DoDDS2	100	6,300	60	4,600
Guam	20	2,600	10	2,400
Virgin Islands	20	1,700	10	1,900
1 Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools. 2 Department of Defense Dependents Schools (Overseas). NOTE: Detail may not sum to total because of rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2000.

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