NAEP Resources

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an assessment administered to a sample of students in each of the 50 states, as well as the jurisdictions of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Department of Defense schools, in order to determine how much U.S. students know about various subjects. While states have their own unique assessments with different content standards, the same NAEP assessment is administered in every state, providing a common measure of student achievement. The main NAEP measures students in mathematics and reading assessments at grades 4 and 8 and occurs every other year.