Order		Cross- jurisdiction significant difference	Number of Jurisdictions Significantly			Hispanic average scale score
			higher	not different	lower	2009
			higher	not different	lower
1 Miami-Dade	Miami-Dade	>	0	5	8	138
2 Houston	Houston	>	0	5	8	137
3 Austin	Austin	>	0	5	8	134
National public	National public		3	3	9	131
4 Charlotte	Charlotte	x	0	9	4	131
5 Milwaukee	Milwaukee	x	0	13	0	127
Large city	Large city	<	4	7	4	127
6 Chicago	Chicago	<	3	8	2	125
7 San Diego	San Diego	<	3	10	0	123
8 Boston	Boston	<	3	10	0	123
9 Cleveland	Cleveland	<	3	10	0	122
10 New York City	New York City	<	4	9	0	120
11 Fresno	Fresno	<	4	9	0	119
12 Los Angeles	Los Angeles	<	5	8	0	118
13 Detroit	Detroit	x	0	13	0	117
14 Philadelphia	Philadelphia	<	5	8	0	115
N/A Jefferson County (KY)	Jefferson County (KY)	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
N/A Baltimore City	Baltimore City	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
N/A Atlanta	Atlanta	‡	‡	‡	‡	‡
‡ Reporting standards not met.
NOTE: Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, and Pacific Islander includes Native Hawaiian. Race categories exclude Hispanic origin. Prior to 2011, students in the “two or more races” category were categorized as “unclassified”. National public and Large city are 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.