Percentage of children ages 4 and 5 and not yet in kindergarten who can identify shapes, count, recognize letters of the alphabet, and write name, by child's race/ethnicity: 2019

Characteristic	Can identify basic shapes such as a triangle, rectangle, circle, or square						How high the child can count					Can recognize letters of the alphabet					Can write his or her first name, even if some of the letters are backwards
Characteristic	No		Yes, some		Yes, most	Yes, all	Cannot count		Up to 10	Up to 50	Up to 100 or more	No		Yes, some	Yes, most	Yes, all
Total	3		11		24	62	1		19	59	21	3		30	28	39	78
Child’s race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	1	!	7		21	71	1	!	14	63	22	1	!	28	29	41	82
Black, non-Hispanic	4	!	14		32	50	‡		23	54	22	‡		33	25	40	72
Hispanic	7	!	18		27	48	‡		27	57	15	7		36	28	29	73
Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic	‡		8	!	26	66	‡		20	41	36	8	!	18	21	53	78
Other race, non-Hispanic¹	‡		7	!	19	74	‡		17	59	24	‡		25	24	50	78

‡Reporting standards not met. Either there are too few cases for a reliable estimate or the coefficient of variation (CV) is 50 percent or greater.

!Interpret data with caution. The coefficient of variation (CV) for this estimate is between 30 and 50 percent.

¹“Other race, non-Hispanic” includes American Indian/Alaska Native children who are not Hispanic and children who are two or more races and not Hispanic.

NOTE: Detail may not sum totals because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Early Childhood Program Participation Survey of the 2019 National Household Education Surveys Program (ECPP-NHES:2019).