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Grade 8 National Results

View student performance by various student groups, including gender, race/ethnicity, type of school (public or private), family income level (based on eligibility for the National School Lunch Program), students with disabilities (SD), and English language learners (ELL).
Below each figure, click the button for "chart options" to see the data displayed in other chart formats.
To conduct a significance test using the NAEP Data Explorer, click on the link under each table below.

Student Disability Status

English Language Learners

The percentages of eighth-grade students with disabilities performing at or above Basic and at or above Proficient in 2011 were not significantly different from 2009.

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Read specific descriptions of what eighth-graders should know and be able to do at the Basic, Proficient, and Advanced science achievement levels.

Read more information on how to interpret NAEP science results, including how each student group is defined.