Reading Proficiency

The Reading Proficiency indicator is the percentage of third grade students who meet or exceed proficient reading levels in 2013. Higher percentages are better than lower percentages. Reading levels are available by school, so only neighborhoods that have an elementary school are included. Data is from the Minnesota Education Report Card

Children with high reading levels by fourth grade are more likely to graduate from high school and have better health as they get older. High reading proficiency is linked to a reduction in alcohol abuse, violence, diabetes, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease, hospitalization, HIV, cancer, and asthma. Reading Proficiency is included in the Educational Opportunities domain.

Neighborhoodsort descending Indicator Value Rank
Armatage 75.8% 5
Audubon Park -% -
Bancroft 21.8% 21
Beltrami -% -
Bottineau -% -
Bryant -% -
Bryn - Mawr 27.7% 19
Calhoun Area Residents Action Group (CARAG) -% -
Camden Industrial -% -
Cedar - Isles - Dean -% -
Cedar Riverside -% -
Central 9.7% 31
Cleveland 11.1% 30
Columbia Park -% -
Como -% -
Cooper -% -
Corcoran -% -
Diamond Lake -% -
Downtown East -% -
Downtown West -% -
East Calhoun (ECCO) -% -
East Harriet 81.3% 2
East Isles -% -
East Phillips -% -
Elliot Park -% -
Ericsson 58.6% 9
Field -% -
Folwell -% -
Fulton 77.6% 3
Hale 84.6% 1
Harrison -% -
Hawthorne 17.6% 25
Hiawatha 49.4% 13
Holland -% -
Howe -% -
Humboldt Industrial Area -% -
Jordan 9.4% 32
Keewaydin -% -
Kenny 73.3% 7
Kenwood 74.7% 6
King Field -% -
Lind - Bohanon 13.9% 27
Linden Hills -% -
Logan Park -% -
Longfellow 18.6% 24
Loring Park 25.0% 20
Lowry Hill -% -
Lowry Hill East 15.3% 26
Lyndale 31.7% 18
Lynnhurst 76.3% 4
Marcy Holmes 60.9% 8
Marshall Terrace -% -
McKinley -% -
Mid - City Industrial -% -
Midtown Phillips 13.6% 28
Minnehaha -% -
Morris Park -% -
Near - North 18.7% 23
Nicollet Island - East Bank -% -
North Loop -% -
Northeast Park -% -
Northrop -% -
Page -% -
Phillips West -% -
Powderhorn Park -% -
Prospect Park - East River Road 50.0% 11
Regina -% -
Seward 49.4% 13
Sheridan 13.2% 29
Shingle Creek -% -
St. Anthony East -% -
St. Anthony West -% -
Standish 19.8% 22
Steven's Square - Loring Heights -% -
Sumner - Glenwood (Heritage Park) -% -
Tangletown -% -
University of Minnesota -% -
Ventura Village -% -
Victory 50.8% 10
Waite Park 50.0% 11
Webber - Camden -% -
Wenonah 48.0% 15
West Calhoun -% -
Whittier 35.3% 17
Willard - Hay -% -
Windom 44.2% 16
Windom Park -% -

Key Citations:
1. Barrington, Byron L. and Bryan Hendricks. “Differentiating Characteristics of High School Graduates, Dropouts, and Nongraduates” The Journal of Educational Research , Vol. 82, No. 6 (Jul. - Aug., 1989), pp. 309-319.

2. Berkman, Nancy D., et al. "Literacy and health outcomes: summary." (2004).

3. DeWalt, Darren A., et al. "Literacy and health outcomes." Journal of General Internal Medicine 19.12 (2004): 1228-1239.

4. Hernandez, Donald J. 2011. Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation. Baltimore, MD: Annie E. Casey Foundation. April.

5. Lloyd, Dee Norman. "Prediction of school failure from third-grade data." Educational and Psychological Measurement 38.4 (1978): 1193-1200.

6. Paasche-Orlow, Michael K., and Michael S. Wolf. "The causal pathways linking health literacy to health outcomes." American Journal of Health Behavior 31.Supplement 1 (2007): S19-S26.

7. Schillinger, Dean, et al. "Does literacy mediate the relationship between education and health outcomes? A study of a low-income population with diabetes." Public health reports 121.3 (2006): 245.