National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

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is an assessment administered at Grades 4, 8, and 12 that reports academic achievement of our Nation’s students and allows comparison within a state by subgroup, across states and regions of the country, and with the nation as a whole.
is the nation’s only ongoing survey of what students know and can do in various subject areas (reading, mathematics, writing, and science at the state and national levels; U.S. history, geography, civics, economics, world history, foreign language, and the arts at the national level).
was designed as a survey assessment in 1969 to produce national results.
was expanded to produce state level results in 1990. Results for selected large urban school districts have been available since 2002.
two major goals are to measure student achievement and to report changes in performance over time.
reports performance by subgroups of students, e.g., by gender, racial/ethnic group, English Language Learners (ELL), and participation in exceptional education programs.
assessments are implemented by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) with the help of contractors.
does NOT provide scores at the school or individual student levels.

To obtain (NAEP) data, please access the Nation’s Report Card homepage at http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/.

The NAEP contact for the state of Florida is Michele Sonnenfeld. She can be contacted by e-mail at or by telephone at (850) 245-0513.