Chart: Poverty and Test Scores are Closely Correlated in all Western Countries: 2011 PISA scores at the 5th, 50th, and 95th percentile of ESCS, Canada, Finland, Korea, Poland, and United States

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Poverty and Test Scores are Closely Correlated in all Western Countries: 2011 PISA scores at the 5th, 50th, and 95th percentile of ESCS, Canada, Finland, Korea, Poland, and United States

	5th percentile	50th percentile	95th percentile
Canada	368	529	664
Finland	382	542	666
Korea	400	545	658
Poland	346	504	640
United States	339	501	656

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Source: 2011 PISA scores by percentiles of Economic, Social, and Cultural Status (ESCS), a measure constructed to be comparable across Western nations based on "the International Socio-Economic Index of Occupational Status (ISEI); the highest level of education of the student’s parents, converted into years of schooling; the PISA index of family wealth; the PISA index of home educational resources; and the PISA index of possessions related to “classical” culture in the family home."

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