NAEP ยท 2005 to 2024
NAEP score gaps and what policy can do
These pages use the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Nation's Report Card, to compare reading and math scores between any two test years from 2005 to 2024. They look across the whole range of scores, from the lowest-scoring students to the highest, not only the average.
Three tools
Score changes
How scores changed
See how scores changed in each state and in the nation's public schools, for low, middle, and high scorers, and where the gap between them grew.
Explore score changesPolicy explorer
What policy can do
Design a program or policy change, such as tutoring or summer school, and see how far it could move the nation's scores in the best case.
Open the explorerRounds of a program
What would it take?
Count how many rounds of a tutoring or summer program it would take to bring the lowest scorers back to an earlier year's level.
Count the rounds