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Students with disabilities and/or limited-English-proficient students identified, excluded, and assessed, when accommodations were permitted, grades 4 and 8 public and nonpublic schools: 1998–2003

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  1998 2000 2002 2003
  Number of
students		 Weighted percentage
of students
sampled 		Number of
students		 Weighted percentage
of students
sampled		 Number of
students		 Weighted percentage
of students
sampled 		Number of
students		 Weighted percentage
of students
sampled
Grade 4                
SD1 and/or LEP2 students                
Identified 973      16    906     18    28,073     19    40,338   20  
Excluded 393   6   316   6   10,307   6   12,523   6  
Assessed 580   10   590   12   17,766   13   27,815   14  
Without accommodations 413   7   476   10   11,913   9   16,574   9  
With accommodations 167   3   114   2   5,853   4   11,241   5  
SD students                                
Identified 558   10   510   11   19,936   12   27,658   13  
Excluded 246   4   193   4   8,042   5   9,549   4  
Assessed 312   6   317   7   11,894   7   18,109   8  
Without accommodations 179   3   209   5   6,631   4   8,296   4  
With accommodations 133   3   108   2   5,263   3   9,813   4  
LEP students                                
Identified 446   6   446   8   10,334   8   16,328   10  
Excluded 167   2   159   3   3,410   2   4,494   2  
Assessed 279   4   287   5   6,924   6   11,834   7  
Without accommodations 238   3   273   5   6,020   6   9,497   6  
With accommodations 41   1   14   #   904   1   2,337   1  
 Grade 8                                
SD1 and/or LEP2 students                                
Identified 1,252   12   —   —   20,137   17   28,040   17  
Excluded 368   4   —   —   7,135   5   8,672   5  
Assessed 884   9   —   —   13,002   11   19,368   12  
Without accommodations 678   6   —   —   8,598   8   10,915   7  
With accommodations 206   2   —   —   4,404   4   8,453   5  
SD students                                
Identified 865   10   —   —   16,159   12   22,360   13  
Excluded 283   3   —   —   5,939   4   7,216   4  
Assessed 582   7   —   —   10,220   8   15,144   9  
Without accommodations 404   5   —   —   6,074   5   7,248   4  
With accommodations 178   2   —   —   4,146   3   7,896   5  
LEP students                                
Identified 447   3   —   —   5,516   6   8,053   6  
Excluded 109   1   —   —   1,907   2   2,416   1  
Assessed 338   2   —   —   3,609   4   5,637   4  
Without accommodations 307   2   —   —   3,113   4   4,442   4  
With accommodations 31   #   —   —   496   #   1,195   1  
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— Not available.
# The estimate rounds to zero.
1 Students with disabilities. 
2 Limited-English-proficient students. 
NOTE: Data were not collected at grade 8 in 2000. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.  Within each grade level, the combined SD/LEP portion of the table is not a sum of the separate SD and LEP portions because some students were identified as both SD and LEP. Such students would be counted separately in the bottom portions but counted only once in the top portion.
The number of students at grades 4 and 8 are larger in 2002 and 2003 than in previous years because the 2002 and 2003 national samples were based on the combined sample of students in each participating state, plus an additional sample from nonparticipating states as well as a sample from private schools.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 1998, 2000, 2002, and 2003 Reading Assessments.


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View the types of accommodations permitted for students with disabilities and/or students with limited English proficiency at the national and state levels.

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Last updated 14 January 2004 (HM)