NAEP Technical DocumentationWeighted School Response Rates for the 2017 Public School Writing Assessment

The following table presents unweighted counts of eligible sampled schools and participating schools, as well as weighted school response rates, for the public school samples in which the writing assessment was conducted. The weighted school response rates estimate the proportion of the student population that is represented by the participating school sample.               

School counts and response rates of eligible sampled schools, public schools, national writing assessment, by region and grade: 2017

Region	Grade 4			Grade 8
	Number of eligible sampled schools	Number of participating schools	Weighted school response rate (percent)	Number of  eligible sampled  schools	Number of participating schools	Weighted school response rate (percent)
NOTE: Numbers of schools are rounded to nearest ten. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2017 National Writing Assessment.
National	1,490	1,440	96.63	2,050​	1,980	95.83
Northeast	210	210	98.49	​300	​290	​97.12
Midwest	270	260	97.69	​390	​380	​98.09
South	610	590	94.60	​840	​810	​93.94
West	390	380	98.10	​520	​510	​96.24

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