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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: Sociol Educ. 2012 Jan 10;85:10.1177/0038040711431588. doi: 10.1177/0038040711431588

Table 1.

Average Test Scores in Schools (Percentiles within States) by Race/Ethnicity and Grade Level

Elementary Middle High School
Reading Mathematics Reading Mathematics Reading Mathematics
White 59.9 59.2 61.0 61.2 60.5 60.8
Black 35.1 35.5 36.5 36.4 38.4 36.4
Hispanic 36.4 38.9 37.9 40.8 43.5 45.7
Asian 58.9 59.2 59.6 61.5 61.3 63.6
Native American 42.0 42.5 43.3 44.4 47.0 49.3
Number of schools 45,248 43,305 21,800 20,579 14,389 14,436