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NAEP Technical DocumentationEligibility Status of Schools Sampled for the 2024 State Assessment
The following table shows the unweighted counts and percentages of sampled schools that were eligible and ineligible, by reason for ineligibility, for the fourth- and eighth-grade public school state assessment samples.
| Eligibility status | Grade 4 | Grade 8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unweighted count of schools | Unweighted percentage | Unweighted count of schools | Unweighted percentage | |
| All sampled public schools | 6,390 | 100.00 | 5,770 | 100.00 |
| Eligible | 6,210 | 97.21 | 5,540 | 96.00 |
| Ineligible | 178 | 2.79 | 231 | 4.00 |
| Has sampled grade, but no eligible students | 36 | 0.56 | 39 | 0.68 |
| Does not have sampled grade | 15 | 0.23 | 40 | 0.69 |
| School closed | 66 | 1.03 | 52 | 0.90 |
| Not a regular school | 61 | 0.96 | 100 | 1.73 |
| Other ineligible school | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Duplicate on sampling frame | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NOTE: Numbers of schools are rounded to nearest ten, except those pertaining to ineligible schools. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Percentages are based on unrounded counts. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2024 State Mathematics and Reading Assessments. | ||||
Last updated 08 January 2026 (LW)