NAEP Geography Press Release Presentation: Average Scale Scores by Parents' Highest Education Level and Type of School, Grade 8: 2001

	Public	Nonpublic	Overall

Graduated college	273	282	274 ^†

Some education after high school	265	273	266 ^†

Graduated high school	252	263	253 ^†

Less than high school	241	--	241

Overall		261		274

Nonpublic is significantly different from public. ^† Score for each level of parent education is significantly higher than the score for lower levels. -- Sample size is insufficient to permit a reliable estimate. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1994 and 2001 Geography Assessments.