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NAEP Technical DocumentationNumber of Schools Selected for Both the State and National Main Assessments in 2000

The table below lists the number of schools selected for both the 2000 state and national main assessments. Note that for the 2000 national main assessment, 570 non-new schools were selected at the fourth-grade level, 480 at the eight-grade level, and 320 at the twelfth-grade level.

Number of schools selected for both state and national main assessments: 2000

State assessment schools	National main assessment fourth-grade schools	National main assessment eighth-grade schools	National main assessment twelfth-grade schools
Fourth-grade schools	5	4	3
Eighth-grade schools	6	34	4
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2000.

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