Selected-state participation

Results are reported for 12 states with relatively large populations of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students. The AI/AN student enrollment in these states combined represents more than 60 percent of the AI/AN student enrollment in the nation. NIES state-level data include results from AI/AN students who attended public and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools.

In 2005, seven states had sufficient samples of AI/AN students to report state-level data. In 2007, a total of 11 states had sufficiently large samples, with Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington being added to the original seven selected states for 2005. In 2009, results were also reported for Utah, resulting in state-level reporting for a total of 12 states. In 2011, results are reported for the same 12 states. While 6 of the 12 states had sufficient AI/AN students without oversampled, schools in 6 states were oversampled in 2011: Arizona, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.

Find out more about the NIES sampling procedure.