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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 2019 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | ||||||||||
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| Grade and school locale |
Total | Percent of students in school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch1 |
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| 0 to 25 percent |
26 to 50 percent |
51 to 75 percent |
76 to 100 percent |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Grade 4 (2019) | ||||||||||
| Total | 220 | (0.2) | 240 | (0.5) | 227 | (0.4) | 217 | (0.4) | 206 | (1.0) |
| City | 215 | (0.5) | 241 | (1.0) | 230 | (1.4) | 216 | (1.2) | 204 | (1.3) |
| Large | 213 | (0.7) | 240 | (1.8) | 229 | (2.7) | 214 | (2.2) | 203 | (1.1) |
| Midsize | 216 | (1.3) | 243 | (1.8) | 232 | (3.0) | 218 | (2.0) | 207 | (3.3) |
| Small | 221 | (1.2) | 241 | (1.6) | 231 | (2.0) | 218 | (1.6) | 204 | (3.4) |
Suburban |
226 | (0.4) | 241 | (0.6) | 229 | (0.8) | 218 | (0.9) | 206 | (2.2) |
| Large | 226 | (0.5) | 241 | (0.7) | 229 | (0.9) | 218 | (0.9) | 205 | (2.3) |
| Midsize | 222 | (1.5) | 236 | (1.7) | 226 | (1.5) | 219 | (1.8) | 211 | (5.6) |
| Small | 225 | (1.7) | 238 | (1.9) | 228 | (2.5) | 221 | (4.1) | 216 | (3.2) |
Town |
217 | (0.7) | 232 | (1.8) | 224 | (1.0) | 215 | (0.9) | 209 | (2.2) |
| Fringe | 222 | (1.0) | 231 | (2.7) | 225 | (1.9) | 217 | (1.7) | 210 | (3.3) |
| Distant | 214 | (1.4) | 236 | (2.9) | 224 | (1.7) | 215 | (1.2) | 207 | (4.0) |
| Remote | 215 | (0.9) | 230 | (4.3) | 223 | (1.3) | 214 | (1.6) | 209 | (2.2) |
Rural |
219 | (0.6) | 236 | (1.2) | 222 | (1.0) | 218 | (0.9) | 210 | (2.6) |
| Fringe | 221 | (0.9) | 238 | (1.2) | 223 | (1.1) | 218 | (1.1) | 210 | (3.7) |
| Distant | 217 | (0.8) | 228 | (2.3) | 220 | (1.6) | 220 | (1.5) | 210 | (3.7) |
| Remote | 213 | (1.1) | 226 | (3.5) | 224 | (1.1) | 215 | (1.6) | 215 | (5.0) |
Grade 8 (2019) |
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| Total | 263 | (0.3) | 279 | (0.5) | 268 | (0.6) | 259 | (0.6) | 249 | (0.9) |
| City | 259 | (0.7) | 282 | (1.3) | 268 | (1.1) | 260 | (1.4) | 244 | (1.5) |
| Large | 257 | (0.9) | 284 | (1.8) | 269 | (1.9) | 261 | (1.5) | 245 | (1.8) |
| Midsize | 258 | (1.6) | 282 | (2.9) | 264 | (2.9) | 253 | (4.6) | 237 | (3.5) |
| Small | 264 | (1.5) | 279 | (2.2) | 271 | (1.6) | 263 | (1.2) | 248 | (1.8) |
Suburban |
267 | (0.4) | 280 | (0.6) | 270 | (1.1) | 257 | (1.2) | 251 | (1.1) |
| Large | 268 | (0.5) | 280 | (0.7) | 270 | (1.2) | 257 | (1.4) | 251 | (1.2) |
| Midsize | 263 | (1.1) | 276 | (1.5) | 268 | (1.4) | 257 | (1.8) | ‡ | (†) |
| Small | 266 | (1.4) | 278 | (4.2) | 268 | (1.9) | 257 | (2.9) | ‡ | (†) |
Town |
259 | (0.8) | 274 | (1.8) | 264 | (1.2) | 257 | (1.4) | 255 | (3.5) |
| Fringe | 262 | (2.1) | 276 | (2.2) | 264 | (2.8) | 256 | (2.5) | ‡ | (†) |
| Distant | 258 | (1.0) | 270 | (2.5) | 265 | (1.4) | 259 | (1.9) | 254 | (8.1) |
| Remote | 257 | (1.4) | 271 | (4.9) | 263 | (0.9) | 255 | (2.2) | 250 | (2.6) |
Rural |
264 | (0.5) | 275 | (1.1) | 266 | (0.8) | 260 | (0.8) | 252 | (1.9) |
| Fringe | 266 | (0.6) | 276 | (1.3) | 267 | (1.0) | 261 | (1.3) | 252 | (3.2) |
| Distant | 262 | (0.9) | 275 | (2.2) | 265 | (1.4) | 258 | (1.5) | 253 | (3.2) |
| Remote | 258 | (1.1) | 264 | (2.4) | 264 | (1.5) | 261 | (1.9) | 248 | (3.4) |
Grade 12 (2015)2 |
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| 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) |
| †Not applicable. | ||||||||||
| ‡Reporting standards not met (too few cases for a reliable estimate). | ||||||||||
| 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 2019. 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 (2 to 14 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 2019 Reading Assessments, retrieved November 8, 2019, from the Main NAEP Data Explorer (https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/). (This table was prepared November 2019.) |