Program for International Student Assessment (PISA): 2015 Results

State Results: Puerto Rico

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Table A17. Average scores of 15-year-old students on the PISA science literacy scale in Puerto Rico schools, by various student subgroups: 2015
Reporting groups	Average score		*s.e.*
Puerto Rico average	403	*	*6.1*
U.S. average	496		*3.2*
OECD average	493		*0.4*
Sex
Female	407	*	5.9
Male	398	*	7.5
Race/ethnicity
Puerto Rican	402	*	5.9
Hispanic, not Puerto Rican	‡		†
Asian	‡		†
White, not Hispanic	‡		†
Black or African American	‡		†
Multiracial	‡		†
Percentage of students in enrolled schools eligible for free or reduced-price lunch
Less than 10 percent	‡		†
10 to 24.9 percent	‡		†
25 to 49.9 percent	417	*	6.2
50 to 74.9 percent	391	*	14.8
75 percent or more	381	*	7.7

† Not applicable.
‡ Reporting standards not met due to coefficient of variation over 50 percent.
* p<.05. Significantly different from both the U.S. and OECD averages at the .05 level of statistical significance.
NOTE: The OECD average is the average of the national averages of the OECD member countries, with each country weighted equally. Reporting standards were not met for American Indian/Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, Asian, White, not Hispanic, Black and Multiracial. Hispanic includes Latino, except for those who identify as Puerto Rican, which is reported separately. Students who identified themselves as being of Hispanic origin were classified as Hispanic, regardless of their race. Although data for some race/ethnicities were not shown separately because the reporting standards were not met, they are included in the U.S., state, and territory totals. The National School Lunch Program provides free or reduced-price lunch for students meeting certain income guidelines. The percentage of students eligible for this program is an indicator of the socioeconomic level of families served by the school. Data on free or reduced-price lunch are based on principals' responses to a question in the school questionnaire that asked the approximate percentage of eligible students in the school during the previous school year. Standard error is noted by s.e.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), 2015.