Elementary and Secondary Education

Assessments

Table A-15-1. Average mathematics score and percentage of public school 4th-graders, by percentage of students in the school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and selected student characteristics: 2005

			Students in school eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch
	Total		10 percent or less		11–25 percent		26–50 percent		51–75 percent		More than 75 percent
Student characteristic	Score	Percent	Score	Percent	Score	Percent	Score	Percent	Score	Percent	Score	Percent

Total	237	100	255	100	247	100	240	100	232	100	221	100
Race/ethnicity¹
White	246	57	256	82	249	79	244	70	239	52	232	14
Black	220	17	236	4	231	6	226	12	221	20	214	36
Hispanic	225	20	244	5	236	8	231	12	226	21	221	44
Asian/Pacific Islander	251	4	265	8	256	5	248	4	241	3	237	3
American Indian	227	1	244	#	238	1	232	1	227	2	218	2
Language other than English spoken in the home
Never	239	52	254	56	247	60	241	58	234	53	219	37
Sometimes	240	30	257	35	249	30	242	29	234	28	222	29
Always	229	18	254	10	241	10	233	13	227	19	221	34
Student eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch
Eligible	225	46	239	7	235	19	232	36	227	59	219	87
Not eligible	248	52	256	91	250	80	245	62	241	39	231	12

# Rounds to zero. ¹Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian, and American Indian includes Alaska Native. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin unless specified.
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and because data were not available for a small number of cases (1 percent of cases for race/ethnicity and 2 percent for eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2005 Mathematics Assessment, previously unpublished tabulation (October 2005).

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