# US states by NAEP average score, reading, grade 8, 2024

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

- Indicator id: `naep_reading_grade8_average_score`
- Unit: NAEP scale score (0 to 500)
- Definition: Average scale score of public school students in reading, grade 8 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 8, 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 8, 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-8/us-states

| Rank | Place | NAEP scale score (0 to 500) |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Massachusetts | 268 |
| 2 | New Jersey | 266 |
| 3 | Colorado | 265 |
| 4 | New Hampshire | 264 |
| 5 | Connecticut | 263 |
| 6 | Indiana | 262 |
| 7 | Illinois | 262 |
| 8 | Utah | 261 |
| 9 | Idaho | 261 |
| 10 | Iowa | 261 |
| 11 | Montana | 261 |
| 12 | Ohio | 260 |
| 13 | Wisconsin | 260 |
| 14 | Minnesota | 260 |
| 15 | Wyoming | 260 |
| 16 | South Dakota | 260 |
| 17 | Georgia | 259 |
| 18 | Washington | 259 |
| 19 | Pennsylvania | 259 |
| 20 | Tennessee | 259 |
| 21 | Maryland | 258 |
| 22 | Kentucky | 258 |
| 23 | Rhode Island | 258 |
| 24 | North Dakota | 257 |
| 25 | Hawaii | 257 |
| 26 | Vermont | 257 |
| 27 | New York | 257 |
| 28 | Louisiana | 257 |
| 29 | Virginia | 256 |
| 30 | Nebraska | 256 |
| 31 | Kansas | 255 |
| 32 | Missouri | 255 |
| 33 | Michigan | 255 |
| 34 | Maine | 255 |
| 35 | North Carolina | 255 |
| 36 | Oregon | 255 |
| 37 | Arkansas | 255 |
| 38 | California | 254 |
| 39 | Arizona | 254 |
| 40 | South Carolina | 254 |
| 41 | Mississippi | 253 |
| 42 | Nevada | 253 |
| 43 | Florida | 253 |
| 44 | Texas | 252 |
| 45 | District of Columbia | 251 |
| 46 | Alabama | 250 |
| 47 | Delaware | 249 |
| 48 | Oklahoma | 249 |
| 49 | West Virginia | 247 |
| 50 | Alaska | 246 |
| 51 | New Mexico | 245 |