Order		Cross- jurisdiction significant difference	Number of Jurisdictions Significantly			City average scale score	Suburb average scale score	Town average scale score	Rural average scale score
			higher	not different	lower	2009	2009	2009	2009
			higher	not different	lower
1 Florida	Florida	>	0	1	3	148	151	144	156
2 Texas	Texas	>	0	1	3	145	149	144	152
National public	National public		2	0	3	140	153	149	154
3 New York	New York	<	2	2	0	136	157	159	158
4 California	California	<	2	2	0	134	138	‡	143
5 Illinois	Illinois	<	2	2	0	133	151	157	161
‡ Reporting standards not met.
NOTE: National public is not included in sorting the jurisdictions. Score differences are calculated based on differences between unrounded scores.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2009 Science Assessment.