Table 4.2a.  Average reading scale scores, by race/ethnicity and grade: 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2007

— Not available.

1 Total includes races/ethnicities not separately shown.

NOTE: Scale score ranges from 0 to 500. Data were not collected at grade 8 in 2000. The reading data include students for whom accommodations were permitted. For a discussion of the reading scale score definitions, see http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/scale.asp. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2007 Reading Assessments and the NAEP Data Explorer, retrieved January 25, 2008, from http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nde/.