Seriously yourself. Why the [censored] are you being obtuse? A quick google brought up this: science results for 2005:
http://nces.ed.gov/Pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006466
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Of the 37 states and jurisdictions that participated in the 2000 and 2005 eighth-grade assessments, 11 showed gains and 4 showed declines.
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So What - The - [censored] are you talking about??
Anyway, try comparing the results from years prior to the most recent...the differences are similar. Private schools do not greatly outperform public schools...pick any year you like, before or after NCLB.
I have no idea why science scores haven't reported as readily. Perhaps it wasn't a priority. But the data is there and publicly and easily available. It's completely irrelevant anyway because of the paragraph above - the differential just hasn't changed much from year to year.