In 2009, California, the District of Columbia, New Mexico, and Texas have a larger percentage of Hispanic students participating in
NAEP than White students at both grades.
Arizona has a larger percentage of Hispanic students participating in
NAEP than White students at grade 4.
Not exact matches
African - American twelfth - graders are 2.6 times likelier to score below the proficient level on the
NAEP reading exam
than are
white students.
The 2017
NAEP eight - grade reading assessment shows that while 33 percent of
White students in the Milwaukee public schools can read at grade level (proficient or above), the school system teaches less
than one - fifth of that percentage, six percent, of the Black
students in its care to read proficiently at the crucial grade 8 level.
White, African American, and Latino students all scored higher on those NAEP tests than did students from the same racial and ethnic groups in the 1970s, but African American and Latino students made greater gains than white stud
White, African American, and Latino
students all scored higher on those
NAEP tests
than did
students from the same racial and ethnic groups in the 1970s, but African American and Latino
students made greater gains
than white stud
white students.
Twenty - one percent of Latino
students read at the highest levels on
NAEP in 2015 (a one point increase over 2013 and a six point gain over 2002); 21 percent of Native
students read at Proficient and Advanced levels (unchanged from two years ago, and a one point decline over 2002); 36 percent of
white students read at Proficient and Advanced (unchanged from 2013, but five points higher
than in 2002); and 54 percent of Asian
students read at the highest levels on
NAEP (two points higher
than two years ago, and 17 points higher
than in 2002).
Twenty - one percent of Latino eighth - graders read at the highest levels on
NAEP in 2015 (unchanged from 2013, but five points higher
than in 2002); 44 percent of
white eighth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced (two points lower
than in 2013, but three points higher
than levels 13 years ago); 22 percent of Native eighth - grade
students read at the highest levels (three points higher
than in 2013, and four points higher
than in 2002); and 52 percent of Asian eighth - graders read at Proficient and Advanced levels (unchanged from 2013, but 16 points higher
than levels 13 years ago).
Approximately 45 to 50 percent of low - income, Black, Hispanic, American Indian
students, and English language learners (ELL) score below the basic level on the
NAEP, while less
than 10 percent of high income,
White and Asian / Pacific Islanders score below the basic level (NCES, 2001).
As a group, these largely Hispanic
students have persistently scored significantly lower
than their
white peers on standardized tests like the National Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP), known as the nation's report card, despite increased attention to this «achievement gap.»