DENVER—Colorado is one of several states reporting that its students have mastered math and reading skills when they don't meet tougher federal standards, federal officials said this week.

But Colorado officials say the comparison is misleading because they include different groups of students. They say Colorado fared well in other aspects of the same federal report.

The U.S. Education Department report, released this week, compared state achievement standards with the more challenging standards in the federally funded National Assessment of Educational Progress.

In Colorado, the widest discrepancy was in eighth-grade reading, where 87 percent of Colorado students met state standards but only 35 percent met the national mark, the report said.

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