The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only assessment that measures what U.S. students know and can do in various subjects across the nation, states, and in some urban districts. Also known as The Nation’s Report Card, NAEP has provided important information about how students are performing academically since 1969.
NAEP is a congressionally mandated project administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
NAEP is given to a representative sample of students across the country. Results are reported for groups of students with similar characteristics (e.g., gender, race and ethnicity, school location), not individual students. National results are available for all subjects assessed by NAEP. State and selected urban district results are available for mathematics, reading, and (in some assessment years) science and writing.
Subject | National | State | District |
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Reading | Results Available | Results Available | Results Available |
Mathematics | Results Available | Results Available | Results Available |
Science | Results Available | Availability varies by year | Results Available |
Writing | Results Available | Availability varies by year | Results Available |
Arts | Results Available | Results Not Available | Results Not Available |
Civics | Results Available | Results Not Available | Results Not Available |
Geography | Results Available | Results Not Available | Results Not Available |
Economics | Results Available | Results Not Available | Results Not Available |
U.S. History | Results Available | Results Not Available | Results Not Available |
TEL | Results Available | Results Not Available | Results Not Available |
School Type | National | State | District |
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Public | Results Available | Results Available | Results Available |
Private | Results Available | Results Not Available | Results Not Available |
See the years assessments have been administered since the inception of NAEP in 1969.
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