Kansas has posted five-year gains of .1 in English and reading and .9 in mathematics. Scores in science reasoning are the same in 2000 as they were five years ago. Only four of those states posted a higher mean composite score than Kansas. No state that had at least 77 percent of its students tested, as Kansas did, scored higher than Kansas. The maximum score on the test is 36.
Socioeconomic status is a major predictor of student scores across all ethnic categories.
Since 1996, Kansas graduates average mathematics score has risen .9 score points, to 21.2. In the same time period, the English subscale score and the reading subscale score have each risen .1 point, to 21.0 for English and 22.1 for reading. Kansas scores on the science subscale have remained stable at 21.6, while scores on the mean composite score have increased .3 to 21.6. The Kansas percentages have increased since 1999 for all groups. The gap between all Kansas Whites and all Whites nationally on the composite score is .1, while the gap between all Kansas Blacks and all Blacks nationally is .7.