• Public school students’ average score was 545 at grade 4 and 513 at grade 8.
• Higher percentages of Florida 4th- and 8th-graders performed at or above each of the four TIMSS international benchmarks than the international medians. For example, 14 percent of 4th-graders and 8 percent of 8th-graders in Florida performed at or above the Advanced benchmark (625) compared to the international median of 4 percent at grade 4 and 3 percent at grade 8 (see figures 3 and 4, Highlights from TIMSS 2011).
• Male and female students in Florida scored higher, on average, than the TIMSS scale average in mathematics at grade 4, and males scored higher, on average, at grade 8 (table 2).
• At grade 4, White, Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students’ average scores were higher than the TIMSS scale average.
• At grade 8, White and Asian students’ average scores were higher than the TIMSS scale average, while Black students’ average scores were lower.
• Students at grade 4 scored higher, on average, than the TIMSS scale average regardless of the level of poverty within public schools. At grade 8 students in public schools with at least 10 percent but less than 50 percent of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch scored higher, on average, than the TIMSS scales average.

Suggested Citation: Provasnik, S., Kastberg, D., Ferraro, D., Lemanski, N., Roey, S., and Jenkins, F. (2012). Highlights From TIMSS 2011: Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context (NCES 2013-009). National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC.