Education
NAEP 8th Grade Reading
Current rank: #25 of 50 states (257.3, 2024)
Hawaiʻi was worse than the median for two decades, with a 10-to-12-point gap from 2003 through the early 2010s. The gap closed sharply since 2013 as Hawaiʻi improved and the median declined. By 2024 Hawaiʻi reached near-parity for the first time on record.