NAEP eighth grade reading scores have yet to recover since 2019

Although some states saw scores increase or remain stable, no state had a statistically significant increase in the NAEP sample.

The National Center for Education Statistics defines a score change as statistically significant when the increase or decrease exceeds the margin of error. The margin of error varies, so the same difference may be significant in some states and not in others. Point differences are based on integer scores and may round differently from some NAEP releases.
Chart: Kae PetrinSource: NAEP Data Explorer