8th Grade NAEP 1996

National Assessment of Education Progress

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pdf/main2000/2001517b.pdf

Numbers in Red are estimates.

The following is a graphic illustration of the impact of race on education cost and quality.  The difference between public schools and nonpublic schools in states with less than ten percent blacks and Mexicans, like Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Montana, and Missouri, is less than ten points.  But the difference between public schools and nonpublic schools in states whose black and Mexican populations are one third or greater, like Texas, Georgia, California, South Carolina, New Mexico, and Lousiana, is greater than twenty five points.  The state with the highest percentage of blacks, Louisiana, with 32.4% blacks, scores the lowest, while the state with the highest percentage of Mexicans, California at 31.6%, scores only 9 points higher (but 30 points lower than Texas nonpublic schools).

The public schools in states with less than 1% blacks, Utah, New Hampshire, Idaho, Maine, South Dakota, Wyoming, North Dakota, Vermont, and Montana, are consistently the highest scoring schools in all standardized tests, whereas the public schools states with the highest percentage of blacks, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Washington, DC, and New York, are consistently the lowest scoring schools.  Even so, the nonpublic schools in the highest scoring states still outscore the public schools by a significant amount.

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