# US states by NAEP average score, reading, grade 4, 2024

All 51 values come from National Center for Education Statistics for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `naep_reading_grade4_average_score`
- Unit: NAEP scale score (0 to 500)
- Definition: Average scale score of public school students in reading, grade 4 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, the Nation's Report Card), on a scale of 0 to 500, from the National Center for Education Statistics. The year is the year of the assessment, given from January to March.
- Source: National Center for Education Statistics, NAEP Data Service: average scale score, reading, grade 4, all students, public schools, states and nation (https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ndecore/xplore/NDE)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/national-center-for-education-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. NAEP Data Service: average scale score, reading, grade 4, all students, public schools, states and nation. https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ndecore/xplore/NDE. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/naep-reading-grade-4/us-states

| Rank | Place | NAEP scale score (0 to 500) |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Massachusetts | 225 |
| 2 | Wyoming | 222 |
| 3 | New Jersey | 222 |
| 4 | New Hampshire | 221 |
| 5 | Colorado | 221 |
| 6 | Indiana | 220 |
| 7 | Utah | 219 |
| 8 | Connecticut | 219 |
| 9 | Mississippi | 219 |
| 10 | Florida | 218 |
| 11 | Kentucky | 218 |
| 12 | Montana | 217 |
| 13 | Rhode Island | 216 |
| 14 | Ohio | 216 |
| 15 | Louisiana | 216 |
| 16 | Hawaii | 216 |
| 17 | Pennsylvania | 216 |
| 18 | Washington | 216 |
| 19 | Idaho | 216 |
| 20 | Maryland | 216 |
| 21 | North Dakota | 216 |
| 22 | Wisconsin | 215 |
| 23 | Tennessee | 215 |
| 24 | South Carolina | 215 |
| 25 | New York | 215 |
| 26 | Iowa | 215 |
| 27 | Minnesota | 214 |
| 28 | Georgia | 214 |
| 29 | Illinois | 214 |
| 30 | Virginia | 214 |
| 31 | South Dakota | 214 |
| 32 | North Carolina | 213 |
| 33 | Alabama | 213 |
| 34 | Nevada | 213 |
| 35 | Kansas | 213 |
| 36 | Vermont | 213 |
| 37 | Texas | 212 |
| 38 | Missouri | 212 |
| 39 | California | 212 |
| 40 | Nebraska | 212 |
| 41 | Arkansas | 210 |
| 42 | Maine | 210 |
| 43 | Delaware | 210 |
| 44 | District of Columbia | 209 |
| 45 | Michigan | 209 |
| 46 | Arizona | 208 |
| 47 | Oklahoma | 207 |
| 48 | Oregon | 207 |
| 49 | West Virginia | 206 |
| 50 | Alaska | 202 |
| 51 | New Mexico | 201 |