Table 113. | Percent of students at or above selected reading proficiency levels, by sex, race/ethnicity, and age: 1971 to 1999 |
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sex, | | | | | | | | | | race/ethnicity,| | | | | | | | | | and level | 1971 | 1975 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1990 | 1992 | 1994 | 1996 | 1999 _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ | 9-year-olds\1\ |____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|90.6 (0.5)|93.1 (0.4)| 94.6 (0.4)| 92.3 (0.3)| 92.7 (0.7)| 90.1 (0.9)|92.3 (0.4)| 92.1 (0.7)| 92.7 (0.6)| 93 (0.7) Level 200\3\.|58.7 (1.0)|62.1 (0.8)| 67.7 (1.0)| 61.5 (0.7)| 62.6 (1.3)| 58.9 (1.3)|62.0 (1.1)| 63.3 (1.4)| 63.7 (1.2)| 64 (1.4) Level 250\4\.|15.6 (0.6)|14.6 (0.6)| 17.7 (0.8)| 17.2 (0.6)| 17.5 (1.1)| 18.4 (1.0)|16.2 (0.8)| 16.5 (1.2)| 17.7 (0.8)| 16 (1.0) | | | | | | | | | | Male | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|87.9 (0.7)|91.0 (0.5)| 92.9 (0.5)| 90.4 (0.5)| 90.4 (0.9)| 87.9 (1.4)|90.2 (0.8)| 90.2 (1.0)| 90.7 (0.8)| 91 (1.1) Level 200\3\.|52.7 (1.2)|56.2 (1.0)| 62.7 (1.1)| 58.0 (0.9)| 58.4 (1.8)| 53.8 (1.9)|56.9 (1.6)| 59.2 (1.5)| 57.8 (2.0)| 61 (1.8) Level 250\4\.|12.0 (0.6)|11.5 (0.6)| 14.6 (0.9)| 15.9 (0.7)| 15.8 (1.4)| 16.1 (1.2)|14.2 (1.0)| 15.2 (1.2)| 15.0 (1.3)| 15 (1.3) | | | | | | | | | | Female | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|93.2 (0.5)|95.3 (0.3)| 96.4 (0.4)| 94.2 (0.4)| 94.9 (1.0)| 92.4 (1.1)|94.4 (0.6)| 94.0 (0.8)| 94.6 (0.8)| 95 (0.8) Level 200\3\.|64.6 (1.1)|68.1 (0.8)| 72.7 (1.0)| 65.2 (0.8)| 66.9 (1.4)| 64.2 (1.2)|67.3 (1.2)| 67.3 (1.9)| 69.5 (1.6)| 67 (1.6) Level 250\4\.|19.2 (0.8)|17.7 (0.8)| 20.7 (1.0)| 18.4 (0.7)| 19.1 (1.2)| 20.8 (1.2)|18.2 (1.1)| 17.8 (1.5)| 20.4 (1.3)| 17 (1.3) | | | | | | | | | | White\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|94.0 (0.4)|96.0 (0.3)| 97.1 (0.2)| 95.4 (0.3)| 95.1 (0.7)| 93.5 (0.9)|95.8 (0.5)| 95.7 (0.5)| 95.9 (0.8)| 97 (0.4) Level 200\3\.|65.0 (1.0)|69.0 (0.8)| 74.2 (0.7)| 68.6 (0.8)| 68.4 (1.6)| 66.0 (1.4)|69.3 (1.2)| 70.1 (1.5)| 70.9 (1.5)| 73 (1.6) Level 250\4\.|18.0 (0.7)|17.4 (0.7)| 21.0 (0.9)| 20.9 (0.7)| 20.3 (1.5)| 22.6 (1.2)|19.6 (1.0)| 19.7 (1.5)| 21.6 (1.1)| 20 (1.4) | | | | | | | | | | Black\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|69.7 (1.7)|80.7 (1.1)| 84.9 (1.4)| 81.3 (1.0)| 83.2 (2.4)| 76.9 (2.7)|79.6 (2.2)| 78.7 (2.4)| 83.1 (1.9)| 82 (2.5) Level 200\3\.|22.0 (1.5)|31.6 (1.5)| 41.3 (1.9)| 36.6 (1.5)| 39.4 (2.9)| 33.9 (3.4)|36.6 (2.2)| 38.3 (2.8)| 41.3 (3.2)| 36 (3.0) Level 250\4\.| 1.6 (0.5)| 2.0 (0.3)| 4.1 (0.6)| 4.5 (0.5)| 5.6 (1.2)| 5.2 (1.5)| 4.6 (0.8)| 4.4 (1.5)| 6.6 (1.3)| 4 (1.1) | | | | | | | | | | Hispanic | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.| --- --- |80.8 (2.5)| 84.5 (1.8)| 82.0 (2.1)| 85.6 (3.5)| 83.7 (1.8)|83.4 (2.6)| 80.4 (4.6)| 84.2 (2.4)| 87 (3.3) Level 200\3\.| --- --- |34.6 (3.0)| 41.6 (2.6)| 39.6 (2.2)| 45.9 (3.3)| 40.9 (2.7)|43.1 (3.5)| 37.1 (4.6)| 47.5 (3.8)| 44 (3.4) Level 250\4\.| --- --- | 2.6 (0.5)| 5.0 (1.4)| 4.3 (0.6)| 8.6 (2.3)| 5.8 (2.0)| 7.2 (2.3)| 6.4 (1.6)| 7.5 (3.2)| 6 (1.7) _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ | 13-year-olds\1\ _______________|____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.8 (0.0)|99.7 (0.1)| 99.9 (0.1)| 99.8 (0.0)| 99.9 (0.1)| 99.8 (0.1)|99.5 (0.3)| 99.3 (0.2)| 99.6 (0.2)| 100 (0.2) Level 200\3\.|93.0 (0.5)|93.2 (0.4)| 94.8 (0.4)| 93.9 (0.3)| 94.9 (0.6)| 93.8 (0.6)|92.7 (0.7)| 91.7 (0.6)| 92.8 (0.7)| 93 (0.7) Level 250\4\.|57.8 (1.1)|58.6 (1.0)| 60.7 (1.1)| 59.0 (0.6)| 58.7 (1.3)| 58.7 (1.0)|61.6 (1.4)| 60.4 (1.2)| 61.3 (1.3)| 61 (1.5) Level 300\6\.| 9.8 (0.5)|10.2 (0.5)| 11.3 (0.5)| 11.0 (0.4)| 10.9 (0.8)| 11.0 (0.6)|15.3 (0.9)| 14.1 (0.8)| 13.8 (1.0)| 15 (1.1) | | | | | | | | | | Male | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.6 (0.1)|99.6 (0.1)| 99.8 (0.1)| 99.7 (0.1)| 99.7 (0.2)| 99.7 (0.2)|99.2 (0.4)| 99.1 (0.3)| 99.5 (0.4)| 99 (0.3) Level 200\3\.|90.7 (0.7)|90.9 (0.5)| 93.4 (0.6)| 92.2 (0.4)| 92.8 (1.0)| 91.4 (0.9)|90.4 (1.1)| 88.8 (1.1)| 90.1 (1.2)| 91 (0.9) Level 250\4\.|51.6 (1.2)|51.7 (1.1)| 55.9 (1.2)| 54.0 (0.8)| 52.3 (1.9)| 52.4 (1.5)|55.5 (2.0)| 53.3 (1.9)| 54.8 (1.6)| 55 (1.9) Level 300\6\.| 7.3 (0.5)| 7.0 (0.4)| 9.1 (0.7)| 9.0 (0.4)| 8.6 (0.9)| 7.6 (0.8)|12.8 (1.1)| 10.1 (0.7)| 10.3 (1.0)| 11 (1.1) | | | | | | | | | | Female | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.9 (0.1)|99.9 (0.1)| 99.9 (0.0)| 99.9 (0.1)|100.0 --- | 99.9 --- |99.8 --- | 99.6 (0.2)| 99.8 --- | 100 --- Level 200\3\.|95.2 (0.4)|95.5 (0.4)| 96.1 (0.4)| 95.8 (0.3)| 96.9 (0.6)| 96.3 (0.6)|95.0 (0.7)| 94.9 (0.6)| 95.3 (0.6)| 96 (0.7) Level 250\4\.|64.0 (1.1)|65.5 (1.2)| 65.4 (1.1)| 64.0 (0.7)| 65.0 (1.4)| 65.0 (1.5)|67.5 (1.4)| 67.9 (1.7)| 67.5 (1.6)| 66 (1.9) Level 300\6\.|12.3 (0.6)|13.5 (0.7)| 13.5 (0.6)| 13.2 (0.5)| 13.2 (0.9)| 14.5 (0.9)|17.7 (1.1)| 18.4 (1.1)| 17.1 (1.3)| 18 (1.7) | | | | | | | | | | White\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.9 (0.0)|99.9 0.0 |100.0 --- | 99.9 (0.0)| 99.9 --- | 99.9 (0.1)|99.8 (0.1)| 99.6 (0.2)| 99.8 (0.2)| 100 (0.1) Level 200\3\.|96.2 (0.3)|96.4 (0.2)| 97.1 (0.2)| 96.2 (0.3)| 96.0 (0.6)| 96.0 (0.6)|95.9 (0.6)| 95.0 (0.7)| 95.9 (0.5)| 96 (0.6) Level 250\4\.|64.2 (0.9)|65.5 (0.9)| 67.8 (0.8)| 65.3 (0.7)| 63.7 (1.5)| 64.8 (1.2)|68.5 (1.4)| 68.1 (1.3)| 70.1 (1.4)| 69 (1.7) Level 300\6\.|11.3 (0.5)|12.1 (0.5)| 13.6 (0.6)| 13.1 (0.5)| 12.4 (0.9)| 13.3 (0.9)|18.1 (1.1)| 17.2 (1.0)| 17.2 (1.3)| 18 (1.4) | | | | | | | | | | Black\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|98.6 (0.3)|98.4 (0.3)| 99.3 (0.3)| 99.4 (0.2)| 99.8 --- | 99.4 --- |98.7 --- | 98.6 --- | 99.4 --- | 99 --- Level 200\3\.|74.2 (1.7)|76.9 (1.3)| 84.1 (1.7)| 85.5 (1.0)| 91.3 (2.2)| 87.7 (2.3)|82.0 (2.7)| 80.6 (2.3)| 82.7 (3.2)| 85 (2.3) Level 250\4\.|21.1 (1.2)|24.8 (1.6)| 30.1 (2.0)| 34.6 (1.2)| 40.2 (2.3)| 41.7 (3.5)|38.4 (2.7)| 35.6 (3.5)| 35.1 (3.9)| 38 (2.7) Level 300\6\.| 0.8 (0.2)| 1.5 (0.3)| 1.8 (0.5)| 2.8 (0.5)| 4.6 (1.2)| 4.6 (0.8)| 5.7 (1.4)| 3.9 (1.2)| 3.1 (0.9)| 5 (1.4) | | | | | | | | | | Hispanic | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.| --- --- |99.6 (0.3)| 99.7 --- | 99.5 --- | 99.2 --- | 99.1 (0.5)|98.1 --- | 98.7 --- | 98.7 --- | 100 --- Level 200\3\.| --- --- |81.3 (2.3)| 86.8 (2.4)| 86.7 (1.5)| 87.4 (2.6)| 85.8 (2.4)|83.4 (3.5)| 82.4 (2.7)| 86.1 (3.2)| 89 (2.8) Level 250\4\.| --- --- |32.0 (3.6)| 35.4 (2.6)| 39.0 (2.1)| 38.0 (4.4)| 37.2 (2.9)|40.9 (5.1)| 33.9 (3.9)| 39.8 (3.7)| 43 (3.8) Level 300\6\.| --- --- | 2.2 (1.0)| 2.3 (0.6)| 4.1 (0.7)| 4.4 (1.9)| 3.9 (1.2)| 6.0 (1.9)| 4.3 (1.8)| 5.5 (1.7)| 6 (1.8) _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ | 17-year-olds\1\ _______________|____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Total | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.6 (0.1)|99.7 (0.1)| 99.9 (0.1)|100.0 (0.0)|100.0 --- | 99.9 --- |99.8 (0.1)| 99.8 (0.1)|100.0 --- | 100 --- Level 200\3\.|96.0 (0.3)|96.4 (0.3)| 97.2 (0.3)| 98.3 (0.1)| 98.9 (0.3)| 98.1 (0.3)|97.1 (0.4)| 96.8 (0.5)| 97.4 (0.5)| 98 (0.4) Level 250\4\.|78.6 (0.9)|80.1 (0.7)| 80.7 (0.9)| 83.1 (0.5)| 85.7 (0.8)| 84.1 (1.0)|82.5 (0.8)| 80.8 (1.0)| 81.4 (0.8)| 82 (1.0) Level 300\6\.|39.0 (1.0)|38.7 (0.8)| 37.8 (1.1)| 40.3 (0.8)| 40.9 (1.5)| 41.4 (1.0)|43.2 (1.1)| 41.0 (1.2)| 38.6 (1.4)| 40 (1.4) | | | | | | | | | | Male | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.4 (0.1)|99.5 (0.2)| 99.8 (0.1)| 99.9 (0.0)|100.0 --- | 99.8 --- |99.7 (0.2)| 99.7 --- | 99.9 --- | 100 --- Level 200\3\.|94.7 (0.4)|95.3 (0.4)| 96.3 (0.5)| 97.6 (0.2)| 98.5 (0.5)| 97.0 (0.6)|96.3 (0.7)| 95.5 (0.9)| 96.3 (0.8)| 97 (0.6) Level 250\4\.|74.4 (1.0)|75.6 (0.8)| 77.9 (1.0)| 79.6 (0.6)| 82.9 (1.4)| 79.7 (1.4)|78.4 (1.2)| 76.2 (1.5)| 76.7 (1.2)| 77 (1.5) Level 300\6\.|33.9 (1.1)|33.7 (1.0)| 35.0 (1.3)| 35.4 (0.8)| 37.1 (2.3)| 36.1 (1.5)|38.4 (1.6)| 35.6 (1.9)| 32.8 (1.9)| 34 (1.7) | | | | | | | | | | Female | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.8 (0.1)|99.8 (0.1)| 99.9 --- | 99.9 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- |99.9 --- | 99.9 --- |100.0 --- | 100 --- Level 200\3\.|97.3 (0.3)|97.5 (0.4)| 98.1 (0.3)| 99.0 (0.1)| 99.3 (0.3)| 99.2 (0.3)|97.9 (0.4)| 98.0 (0.5)| 98.6 (0.5)| 99 (0.4) Level 250\4\.|82.6 (1.0)|84.3 (0.9)| 83.6 (1.0)| 86.8 (0.6)| 88.2 (1.1)| 88.6 (1.0)|86.8 (1.1)| 85.6 (1.2)| 86.4 (1.0)| 87 (1.0) Level 300\6\.|44.0 (1.2)|43.6 (0.9)| 40.7 (1.2)| 45.0 (0.9)| 44.4 (2.0)| 46.8 (1.3)|48.5 (1.5)| 46.5 (1.5)| 44.7 (1.7)| 45 (1.8) | | | | | | | | | | White\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|99.9 0.0 |99.9 (0.0)|100.0 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- |99.9 --- |100.0 --- |100.0 --- | 100 --- Level 200\3\.|97.9 (0.2)|98.6 (0.1)| 99.1 (0.1)| 99.0 (0.1)| 99.3 (0.3)| 98.8 (0.2)|98.6 (0.3)| 98.1 (0.4)| 98.5 (0.4)| 98 (0.4) Level 250\4\.|83.7 (0.7)|86.2 (0.6)| 86.9 (0.6)| 88.0 (0.5)| 88.7 (0.9)| 88.3 (1.1)|88.0 (0.9)| 86.2 (1.1)| 86.8 (0.8)| 87 (1.3) Level 300\6\.|43.2 (0.9)|43.9 (0.8)| 43.3 (1.1)| 46.3 (0.9)| 45.4 (1.6)| 47.5 (1.2)|50.1 (1.4)| 47.7 (1.4)| 45.1 (1.4)| 46 (1.5) | | | | | | | | | | Black\5\ | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.|97.6 (0.4)|97.7 (0.8)| 99.0 (0.3)| 99.9 --- |100.0 --- | 99.6 --- |99.1 --- | 99.5 --- | 99.8 --- | 100 --- Level 200\3\.|81.9 (1.5)|82.0 (1.8)| 85.6 (1.7)| 95.9 (0.5)| 98.0 (1.0)| 95.7 (1.3)|91.6 (1.6)| 93.4 (2.0)| 94.8 (1.9)| 95 (1.1) Level 250\4\.|40.1 (1.6)|43.0 (1.6)| 44.0 (2.0)| 65.7 (1.2)| 75.8 (2.4)| 69.1 (2.8)|61.4 (2.3)| 65.7 (4.1)| 67.2 (4.0)| 66 (2.5) Level 300\6\.| 7.7 (0.9)| 8.1 (0.7)| 7.1 (0.8)| 16.2 (0.9)| 24.9 (3.1)| 19.7 (1.8)|16.9 (2.5)| 21.5 (3.7)| 18.0 (2.2)| 17 (1.7) | | | | | | | | | | Hispanic | | | | | | | | | | Level 150\2\.| --- --- |99.3 (0.4)| 99.8 --- | 99.8 --- | 99.9 --- | 99.7 --- |99.8 --- | 99.0 --- | 99.9 --- | 100 --- Level 200\3\.| --- --- |88.7 (2.4)| 93.3 (1.8)| 95.6 (0.7)| 96.3 (2.4)| 95.9 (2.1)|93.4 (2.3)| 91.1 (3.4)| 94.0 (1.9)| 97 --- Level 250\4\.| --- --- |52.9 (4.1)| 62.2 (3.1)| 68.3 (2.1)| 71.5 (4.8)| 75.2 (4.7)|69.2 (4.0)| 63.0 (4.4)| 64.2 (4.2)| 68 (4.3) Level 300\6\.| --- --- |12.6 (2.7)| 16.5 (2.1)| 21.2 (2.3)| 23.3 (3.7)| 27.1 (3.3)|27.3 (3.2)| 20.1 (3.0)| 20.0 (4.8)| 24 (3.8) _______________|__________|__________|___________|___________|___________|___________|__________|___________|___________|___________ |
---Not Available. NOTE: Reading proficiency levels measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Standard errors appear in parentheses. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, NAEP Trends in Academic Progress, various years, by Educational Testing Service. (This table was prepared August 2000).
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