Number and percentage of students in kindergarten through grade 12 whose parents reported various levels of student satisfaction with the amount of homework they are assigned outside of school, by grade level: 2015–16

Characteristic	Number of students in kindergarten through grade 12 (thousands)	Student satisfaction with amount of assigned homework
		About right		Too much		Too little
		Number (thousands)	Percent	Number (thousands)	Percent	Number (thousands)		Percent
Total	48,064	30,672	63.8	15,933	33.1	1,460		3.0
Student’s grade level
Kindergarten	4,529	3,473	76.7	841	18.6	215		4.7
First Grade	3,917	2,710	69.2	1,048	26.8	159	!	4.1
Second Grade	3,779	2,654	70.2	992	26.3	133		3.5
Third Grade	3,886	2,487	64.0	1,307	33.6	91		2.3
Fourth Grade	3,885	2,486	64.0	1,281	33.0	118		3.0
Fifth Grade	3,877	2,422	62.5	1,346	34.7	109		2.8
Sixth Grade	3,654	2,241	61.3	1,319	36.1	94		2.6
Seventh Grade	3,538	2,263	64.0	1,145	32.4	129		3.7
Eighth Grade	3,817	2,236	58.6	1,394	36.5	187		4.9
Ninth Grade	3,560	2,018	56.7	1,500	42.2	41		1.2
Tenth Grade	3,614	2,112	58.4	1,428	39.5	75		2.1
Eleventh Grade	3,157	1,710	54.2	1,367	43.3	80	!	2.5	!
Twelfth Grade	2,852	1,859	65.2	964	33.8	29	!	1.0	!

! Interpret data with caution; coefficient of variation is between 30 and 50 percent.
NOTE: Students who were homeschooled or whose parent reported that they "never" do homework or "do not have homework" were excluded from the table. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), 2016.