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Additional context for some perspective on what the number means:
"The US literacy score between 2012–15 was 272 — right above the international average of 267. Other countries in this realm include Denmark at 271, and Canada, Korea, and England at 273. The two highest-scoring countries were Japan at 296 and Finland at 288."
It should be noted that there are a ton of native Spanish speakers in the Southwest who show up in this data with very low English literacy but who may have higher Spanish literacy
And none of the 50 states had an average over 300? That's extremely disturbing, and also explains a lot.