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

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.