Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2015 Results - Mathematics Literacy: Student Race and Ethnicity

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Mathematics Literacy: Student Race and Ethnicity

Average Scores

Table M5. Average scores of U.S. 15-year-old students on the PISA mathematics literacy scale, by race/ethnicity: 2015
Race/ethnicity	Average score		*s.e.*
U.S. average	470	**	3.2
White	499	*	2.8
Black	419	*	4.7
Hispanic	446	*	5.2
Asian	498	***	10.1
Multiracial	475	**	7.0
OECD average	490	*******	0.4

* p<.05. Significantly different from both the U.S. and OECD averages at the .05 level of statistical significance.
** p<.05. Significantly different from the OECD average at the .05 level of statistical significance.
*** p<.05. Significantly different from the U.S. average at the .05 level of statistical significance.
NOTE: Scores are reported on a scale from 0 to 1,000. Reporting standards were not met for American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander. Black includes African American, and Hispanic includes Latino. Students who identified themselves as being of Hispanic origin were classified as Hispanic, regardless of their race. Although data for some race/ethnicities were not shown separately because the reporting standards were not met, they are included in the U.S. totals. The OECD average is the average of the national averages of the OECD member countries, with each country weighted equally. Standard error is noted by s.e.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2015.