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| Table 223.17. | Average National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science scale score, by percentage of students in school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, grade, and school locale: 2015 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade and school locale | Total | Percent of students in school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch | ||||||||
| 0 to 25 percent | 26 to 50 percent | 51 to 75 percent | 76 to 100 percent | |||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Grade 4 | ||||||||||
| Total | 154 | (0.3) | 172 | (0.6) | 161 | (0.7) | 151 | (0.7) | 134 | (0.6) |
| City | 148 | (0.6) | 175 | (1.9) | 163 | (1.7) | 151 | (1.5) | 132 | (0.7) |
| Large | 144 | (0.8) | 174 | (3.3) | 165 | (2.7) | 151 | (2.4) | 131 | (0.7) |
| Midsize | 151 | (2.1) | 177 | (5.3) | 161 | (3.2) | 149 | (4.1) | 133 | (1.7) |
| Small | 153 | (2.2) | 176 | (1.8) | 162 | (1.8) | 152 | (1.7) | 133 | (3.2) |
| Suburban | 157 | (0.6) | 172 | (0.6) | 160 | (1.1) | 149 | (1.6) | 135 | (1.2) |
| Large | 158 | (0.7) | 172 | (0.6) | 159 | (1.2) | 150 | (1.4) | 135 | (1.4) |
| Midsize | 156 | (2.1) | 171 | (1.3) | 164 | (2.5) | 153 | (2.3) | 136 | (4.6) |
| Small | 151 | (4.5) | 173 | (4.8) | 164 | (4.2) | 137 | (8.8) | 139 | (2.4) |
| Town | 153 | (0.8) | 168 | (2.8) | 161 | (1.1) | 151 | (1.2) | 139 | (3.3) |
| Fringe | 153 | (2.4) | 163 | (3.7) | 160 | (2.8) | 152 | (3.0) | 129 | (12.1) |
| Distant | 153 | (1.2) | 172 | (4.7) | 162 | (1.8) | 152 | (1.8) | 143 | (3.0) |
| Remote | 151 | (1.1) | 173 | (5.0) | 160 | (1.2) | 151 | (1.3) | 140 | (1.6) |
| Rural | 157 | (0.7) | 170 | (1.0) | 162 | (1.0) | 155 | (1.1) | 141 | (1.7) |
| Fringe | 159 | (1.3) | 170 | (1.1) | 162 | (1.6) | 154 | (1.6) | 137 | (2.8) |
| Distant | 157 | (0.8) | 168 | (1.5) | 162 | (1.2) | 155 | (1.6) | 147 | (1.9) |
| Remote | 153 | (1.3) | 165 | (1.9) | 161 | (1.2) | 156 | (2.1) | 140 | (2.7) |
| Grade 8 | ||||||||||
| Total | 154 | (0.3) | 170 | (0.6) | 161 | (0.5) | 150 | (0.6) | 134 | (0.8) |
| City | 148 | (0.6) | 169 | (1.4) | 161 | (0.9) | 148 | (1.5) | 131 | (1.1) |
| Large | 144 | (0.9) | 169 | (4.7) | 163 | (1.5) | 147 | (2.9) | 130 | (1.3) |
| Midsize | 149 | (1.6) | 165 | (2.4) | 161 | (2.8) | 149 | (2.0) | 133 | (2.3) |
| Small | 156 | (1.3) | 173 | (1.3) | 159 | (1.3) | 149 | (1.1) | 129 | (2.6) |
| Suburban | 158 | (0.4) | 171 | (0.7) | 161 | (0.8) | 148 | (1.2) | 136 | (1.0) |
| Large | 158 | (0.5) | 171 | (0.7) | 161 | (0.9) | 149 | (1.3) | 136 | (1.2) |
| Midsize | 154 | (1.9) | 168 | (3.0) | 160 | (2.2) | 150 | (1.7) | 135 | (3.9) |
| Small | 159 | (3.4) | 178 | (3.5) | 161 | (3.0) | 145 | (8.7) | 143 | (5.3) |
| Town | 154 | (0.7) | 164 | (3.6) | 161 | (0.9) | 151 | (1.4) | 139 | (2.6) |
| Fringe | 157 | (1.7) | 167 | (1.9) | 161 | (1.9) | 156 | (2.4) | 126 | (4.5) |
| Distant | 152 | (1.2) | 160 | (6.3) | 160 | (1.1) | 150 | (2.2) | 139 | (2.4) |
| Remote | 154 | (1.4) | 166 | (1.7) | 163 | (1.6) | 149 | (2.1) | 144 | (6.7) |
| Rural | 156 | (0.6) | 167 | (1.1) | 160 | (1.3) | 153 | (0.9) | 140 | (2.3) |
| Fringe | 157 | (1.0) | 168 | (1.2) | 158 | (2.2) | 150 | (1.2) | 141 | (3.8) |
| Distant | 156 | (0.9) | 163 | (1.9) | 161 | (1.4) | 156 | (1.6) | 142 | (2.9) |
| Remote | 154 | (1.0) | 166 | (5.3) | 162 | (1.2) | 156 | (2.0) | 132 | (2.6) |
| Grade 12 | ||||||||||
| Total | 150 | (0.6) | 165 | (1.1) | 154 | (1.0) | 143 | (1.1) | 126 | (1.7) |
| City | 145 | (1.2) | 165 | (2.0) | 156 | (1.6) | 142 | (1.9) | 121 | (2.4) |
| Large | 142 | (2.0) | 165 | (2.8) | 157 | (3.1) | 139 | (2.9) | 121 | (3.2) |
| Midsize | 146 | (2.0) | ‡ | (†) | 153 | (2.7) | 144 | (4.6) | 125 | (3.8) |
| Small | 151 | (2.4) | 164 | (3.5) | 158 | (3.4) | 146 | (2.7) | 118 | (6.0) |
| Suburban | 153 | (1.0) | 165 | (1.6) | 154 | (1.6) | 141 | (2.2) | 125 | (3.5) |
| Large | 153 | (1.1) | 165 | (1.6) | 154 | (1.8) | 139 | (2.7) | 127 | (3.4) |
| Midsize | 149 | (5.0) | ‡ | (†) | 156 | (7.2) | 147 | (4.8) | ‡ | (†) |
| Small | 155 | (3.1) | ‡ | (†) | 154 | (3.8) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| Town | 150 | (2.1) | 169 | (7.9) | 152 | (2.9) | 148 | (2.7) | 136 | (7.3) |
| Fringe | 148 | (2.9) | ‡ | (†) | 151 | (5.2) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| Distant | 149 | (2.5) | ‡ | (†) | 152 | (4.0) | 148 | (4.4) | ‡ | (†) |
| Remote | 152 | (5.2) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | 149 | (4.8) | 126 | (11.0) |
| Rural | 152 | (1.3) | 162 | (1.5) | 153 | (2.3) | 143 | (3.0) | 134 | (4.5) |
| Fringe | 154 | (1.4) | 163 | (1.5) | 155 | (2.1) | 145 | (3.8) | 132 | (5.7) |
| Distant | 148 | (2.8) | ‡ | (†) | 151 | (5.2) | 142 | (8.5) | ‡ | (†) |
| Remote | 144 | (4.0) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| †Not applicable. | ||||||||||
| ‡Reporting standards not met (too few cases for a reliable estimate). | ||||||||||
| NOTE: Scale ranges from 0 to 300 for all three grades, but scores cannot be compared across grades. For example, the total average score of 154 for 4th-graders does not denote higher performance than the total average score of 150 for 12th-graders. Includes public, private, Bureau of Indian Education, and Department of Defense Education Activity schools. Includes students tested with accommodations (9 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 (1 to 2 percent of all students). | ||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2015 Science Assessment, retrieved May 29, 2019, from the Main NAEP Data Explorer (https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/). (This table was prepared May 2019.) |