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The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology administered an English test including listening, reading, writing and speaking sections for junior high school students in the 2019 National Assessment of Academic Ability. The National Institute of Educational Policy Research reported the test results including the correct response rate and the non-response rate of each test item. The brief-constructed items and the constructed items in the writing and speaking sections tended to show higher non-response rates. The purpose of this research was to find a relationship between the non-response rate of each test taker and his/her attitude toward learning English and to find a relationship between the non-response rate of each school and its learning environment and attitude toward teaching English. This study analyzed the response data of 977,250 test takers and 7,988 junior high schools. The results indicated that third-year junior high school students with a higher non-response rate tended to have a negative attitude toward English learning and the English activities conducted in the classroom, and tended to show a lack of a basic knowledge of English structures. The schools with a lower non-response rate tended to use English and to provide advanced activities in the classroom. Ways to decrease the non-response rates in the English test are discussed.