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| Table 221.25. | Average National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scale score, by percentage of students in school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, grade, and school locale: 2015 and 2017 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade and school locale | Total | Percent of students in school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch1 | ||||||||
| 0 to 25 percent | 26 to 50 percent | 51 to 75 percent | 76 to 100 percent | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Grade 4 (2017) | ||||||||||
| Total | 222 | (0.3) | 240 | (0.6) | 228 | (0.6) | 218 | (0.6) | 205 | (0.5) |
| City | 217 | (0.5) | 241 | (2.1) | 229 | (1.3) | 216 | (1.5) | 204 | (0.6) |
| Large | 215 | (0.7) | 243 | (2.9) | 231 | (1.5) | 217 | (2.1) | 203 | (0.7) |
| Midsize | 217 | (1.5) | 237 | (5.4) | 230 | (2.4) | 213 | (5.4) | 204 | (1.2) |
| Small | 222 | (1.4) | 242 | (3.0) | 226 | (2.9) | 217 | (2.7) | 206 | (1.6) |
| Suburban | 227 | (0.4) | 241 | (0.7) | 228 | (1.1) | 220 | (1.0) | 206 | (1.0) |
| Large | 228 | (0.4) | 241 | (0.6) | 228 | (1.1) | 220 | (1.3) | 206 | (1.1) |
| Midsize | 224 | (1.7) | 238 | (2.1) | 225 | (3.1) | 221 | (1.7) | 208 | (2.3) |
| Small | 222 | (4.3) | 246 | (9.6) | 232 | (1.6) | 214 | (2.7) | 199 | (4.4) |
| Town | 217 | (0.8) | 232 | (2.4) | 225 | (0.9) | 217 | (1.0) | 203 | (2.4) |
| Fringe | 222 | (1.5) | 234 | (4.2) | 226 | (1.3) | 217 | (2.7) | 209 | (3.6) |
| Distant | 216 | (1.5) | 235 | (2.4) | 224 | (1.7) | 219 | (1.4) | 205 | (3.7) |
| Remote | 213 | (1.3) | 226 | (4.0) | 225 | (1.3) | 214 | (1.7) | 197 | (2.3) |
| Rural | 222 | (0.7) | 236 | (1.3) | 227 | (0.8) | 218 | (0.7) | 206 | (2.0) |
| Fringe | 225 | (1.2) | 238 | (1.4) | 229 | (1.2) | 218 | (1.0) | 204 | (3.4) |
| Distant | 220 | (0.8) | 228 | (2.4) | 224 | (1.5) | 218 | (1.4) | 211 | (1.5) |
| Remote | 212 | (1.5) | 229 | (9.0) | 222 | (1.4) | 217 | (1.3) | 200 | (2.2) |
| Grade 8 (2017) | ||||||||||
| Total | 267 | (0.3) | 281 | (0.5) | 270 | (0.4) | 261 | (0.5) | 250 | (0.5) |
| City | 262 | (0.5) | 282 | (1.5) | 272 | (1.1) | 260 | (1.0) | 249 | (0.7) |
| Large | 261 | (0.8) | 283 | (2.1) | 271 | (1.7) | 260 | (1.8) | 248 | (0.8) |
| Midsize | 263 | (1.2) | 280 | (4.7) | 275 | (2.2) | 260 | (2.0) | 249 | (1.7) |
| Small | 265 | (1.0) | 283 | (1.8) | 270 | (1.0) | 260 | (1.3) | 249 | (1.6) |
| Suburban | 271 | (0.4) | 282 | (0.7) | 272 | (0.6) | 261 | (1.0) | 251 | (1.0) |
| Large | 272 | (0.4) | 283 | (0.7) | 272 | (0.6) | 262 | (1.1) | 251 | (1.0) |
| Midsize | 267 | (1.7) | 275 | (5.0) | 275 | (1.1) | 257 | (1.7) | 246 | (2.4) |
| Small | 269 | (1.6) | 279 | (2.1) | 270 | (2.7) | 264 | (2.5) | 256 | (4.3) |
| Town | 262 | (0.6) | 274 | (3.0) | 267 | (1.0) | 261 | (0.9) | 249 | (1.2) |
| Fringe | 267 | (1.0) | 273 | (2.5) | 271 | (2.0) | 262 | (2.6) | 249 | (3.2) |
| Distant | 260 | (0.7) | 269 | (4.2) | 266 | (1.4) | 261 | (1.4) | 246 | (1.3) |
| Remote | 262 | (1.4) | 284 | (5.3) | 265 | (1.2) | 260 | (1.2) | 254 | (2.2) |
| Rural | 265 | (0.5) | 278 | (0.9) | 267 | (0.9) | 260 | (0.8) | 251 | (1.2) |
| Fringe | 268 | (0.8) | 280 | (1.1) | 269 | (1.5) | 260 | (1.1) | 251 | (1.7) |
| Distant | 263 | (0.8) | 274 | (1.9) | 264 | (1.3) | 260 | (1.2) | 251 | (2.2) |
| Remote | 262 | (1.2) | 267 | (7.2) | 266 | (1.2) | 262 | (1.5) | 251 | (2.0) |
| Grade 12 (2015)2 | ||||||||||
| Total | 287 | (0.5) | 298 | (1.5) | 289 | (1.0) | 282 | (1.2) | 266 | (1.7) |
| City | 284 | (1.3) | 299 | (2.5) | 293 | (1.6) | 280 | (2.0) | 261 | (2.3) |
| Suburban | 290 | (0.9) | 298 | (2.2) | 290 | (1.8) | 282 | (1.9) | 269 | (3.7) |
| Town | 287 | (2.0) | 308 | (8.0) | 286 | (2.9) | 289 | (2.8) | 272 | (5.1) |
| Rural | 287 | (1.5) | 294 | (2.2) | 286 | (2.1) | 281 | (2.4) | 271 | (3.7) |
| 1 Nonresponse for this variable was greater than 15 percent but not greater than 50 percent. | ||||||||||
| 2 Results for 2015 are shown because a NAEP Reading Assessment was not conducted at grade 12 in 2017. More detailed breakouts of school locale are not available at grade 12. | ||||||||||
| NOTE: Scale ranges from 0 to 500. Includes public, private, Bureau of Indian Education, and Department of Defense Education Activity schools. Includes students tested with accommodations (9 to 12 percent of all students, depending on grade); excludes only those students with disabilities and English language learners who were unable to be tested even with accommodations (2 percent of all students at all grades). | ||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2015 and 2017 Reading Assessments, retrieved May 29, 2019, from the Main NAEP Data Explorer (https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/). (This table was prepared May 2019.) |