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Literacy and Education

Black fourth graders reading at or above Proficient in Bent County, Colorado

The national reading test reports states, not counties or cities. Here is Colorado beside the nation, the closest level the source reports.

Black fourth graders reading at or above Proficient
Bent County: not reported for counties
Colorado21.3%
plus or minus 7.3 points
United States16.4%
plus or minus 0.9 points
All fourth graders in Colorado: 35.7% (plus or minus 2.6 points). Source: National Assessment of Educational Progress (the Nation's Report Card), tested January to March 2024.

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Where you live

Enter your ZIP code or street address to find your city or town below and the people who decide this for you, by name. SourceLine does not keep the address.

Who decides

From you up to Congress. Look up your address above and each step fills in with the people who hold that seat for you.

  1. You and your neighbors Read with a child, ask your school for its reading results for Black students, and vote in school board races.

    Ask: What did our school do last year that raised reading, and can it do more of it?

  2. Your school board Sets the school budget, hires the superintendent and chooses how reading is taught.

    Ask: How many of our Black students read on grade level, and what is the plan, with a date, to raise that number?

  3. Your state legislators and state school leaders Write the school funding formula and the state reading law.

    Ask: Does our state fund the reading help that the states doing best fund?

  4. Your members of Congress Fund Title I and special education, the federal money that reaches schools with the most children in poverty.

    Ask: How much Title I money reaches our district, and how did you vote on it?

What you can do

  1. This weekAsk your child’s school for its reading results for Black students, and for the date of the next school board meeting.
  2. The next date that mattersThe next school board meeting. Budget votes set the reading money for next year.
  3. Where your voice is countedRaise what matters where you live on SourceLine issues. Only confirmed residents are counted, and SourceLine shares the totals, never names, with the body that decides.
Method and sources

Black fourth graders reading at or above Proficient. Source: National Assessment of Educational Progress (the Nation's Report Card), tested January to March 2024.

The margin of error is how far the true figure could be from the one shown. Surveys ask some people, not everyone, so smaller places have wider margins. A place with too few people to measure well is listed but not ranked.

Population, voting age population, citizens of voting age, registered voters and people who voted are different counts. Each page says which one it uses.

Who decides: the people named come from SourceLine’s record of officeholders for the address you enter. Where SourceLine hasn’t updated a level for your area yet, that step says so.

About these figures

Every figure on this page shows the year it describes. Public agencies release their numbers on their own schedules, often a year or more after the work of counting is done. The Census Bureau, for example, publishes its five year community survey each December, and the national reading test is given every two years. That is why some figures are not from this year. SourceLine updates each one as soon as the agency publishes it.

For some counties and small towns, SourceLine has not found meeting records online. Where it has not, we add them as they become available. A page that says SourceLine hasn’t updated a record yet means exactly that.