Here are today's 2012 PISA average scores ranked by the mean across the three subjects. Americans' scores by race are broken out to make the comparisons less misleading. In summary, each race in America appears to average a little better than their racial cousins overseas. (By the way, in the following list, the italicized names refer to non-OECD places):
| Country or "Economy" | Reading | Science | Math | Mean | |||
| OECD average | 496 | 501 | 494 | 497 | |||
| Shanghai-China | 570 | 580 | 613 | 587 | |||
| Singapore | 542 | 551 | 573 | 556 | |||
| Hong Kong-China | 545 | 555 | 561 | 554 | |||
| Asian Americans | 550 | 546 | 549 | 548 | |||
| Korea, Republic of | 536 | 538 | 554 | 542 | |||
| Japan | 538 | 547 | 536 | 540 | |||
| Chinese Taipei | 523 | 523 | 560 | 535 | |||
| Finland | 524 | 545 | 519 | 529 | |||
| Estonia | 516 | 541 | 521 | 526 | |||
| Liechtenstein | 516 | 525 | 535 | 525 | |||
| Massachusetts All Races | 527 | 527 | 514 | 523 | |||
| Macao-China | 509 | 521 | 538 | 523 | |||
| Canada | 523 | 525 | 518 | 522 | |||
| Poland | 518 | 526 | 518 | 521 | |||
| Netherlands | 511 | 522 | 523 | 519 | |||
| Switzerland | 509 | 515 | 531 | 518 | |||
| White Americans | 519 | 528 | 506 | 518 | |||
| Connecticut All Races | 521 | 521 | 506 | 516 | |||
| Vietnam | 508 | 528 | 511 | 516 | |||
| Ireland | 523 | 522 | 501 | 516 | |||
| Germany | 508 | 524 | 514 | 515 | |||
| Australia | 512 | 521 | 504 | 512 | |||
| Belgium | 509 | 505 | 515 | 510 | |||
| New Zealand | 512 | 516 | 500 | 509 | |||
| Multiracial Americans | 517 | 511 | 492 | 507 | |||
| United Kingdom | 499 | 514 | 494 | 502 | |||
| Austria | 490 | 506 | 506 | 500 | |||
| Czech Republic | 493 | 508 | 499 | 500 | |||
| France | 505 | 499 | 495 | 500 | |||
| Slovenia | 481 | 514 | 501 | 499 | |||
| Denmark | 496 | 498 | 500 | 498 | |||
| Norway | 504 | 495 | 489 | 496 | |||
| Latvia | 489 | 502 | 491 | 494 | |||
| United States | 498 | 497 | 481 | 492 | |||
| Luxembourg | 488 | 491 | 490 | 490 | |||
| Spain | 488 | 496 | 484 | 490 | |||
| Italy | 490 | 494 | 485 | 490 | |||
| Portugal | 488 | 489 | 487 | 488 | |||
| Hungary | 488 | 494 | 477 | 487 | |||
| Iceland | 483 | 478 | 493 | 484 | |||
| Lithuania | 477 | 496 | 479 | 484 | |||
| Croatia | 485 | 491 | 471 | 482 | |||
| Sweden | 483 | 485 | 478 | 482 | |||
| Florida All Races | 492 | 485 | 467 | 481 | |||
| Russian Federation | 475 | 486 | 482 | 481 | |||
| Israel | 486 | 470 | 466 | 474 | |||
| Slovak Republic | 463 | 471 | 482 | 472 | |||
| Greece | 477 | 467 | 453 | 466 | |||
| Hispanic Americans | 478 | 462 | 455 | 465 | |||
| Turkey | 475 | 463 | 448 | 462 | |||
| Serbia, Republic of | 446 | 445 | 449 | 447 | |||
| Cyprus | 449 | 438 | 440 | 442 | |||
| United Arab Emirates | 442 | 448 | 434 | 441 | |||
| Bulgaria | 436 | 446 | 439 | 440 | |||
| Romania | 438 | 439 | 445 | 440 | |||
| Thailand | 441 | 444 | 427 | 437 | |||
| Chile | 441 | 445 | 423 | 436 | |||
| African Americans | 443 | 439 | 421 | 434 | |||
| Costa Rica | 441 | 429 | 407 | 426 | |||
| Mexico | 424 | 415 | 413 | 417 | |||
| Kazakhstan | 393 | 425 | 432 | 416 | |||
| Montenegro, Republic of | 422 | 410 | 410 | 414 | |||
| Malaysia | 398 | 420 | 421 | 413 | |||
| Uruguay | 411 | 416 | 409 | 412 | |||
| Brazil | 410 | 405 | 391 | 402 | |||
| Jordan | 399 | 409 | 386 | 398 | |||
| Argentina | 396 | 406 | 388 | 397 | |||
| Tunisia | 404 | 398 | 388 | 397 | |||
| Albania | 394 | 397 | 394 | 395 | |||
| Colombia | 403 | 399 | 376 | 393 | |||
| Indonesia | 396 | 382 | 375 | 384 | |||
| Qatar | 388 | 384 | 376 | 383 | |||
| Peru | 384 | 373 | 368 | 375 |