Number of students with disabilities exiting special education, by basis of exit, age, and type of disability: United States and outlying areas, 2000-01

width="670" align="center">Table 109. Number of students with disabilities exiting special education, by basis of exit, age, and type of disability: United States and outlying areas, 2000-01 border="0" align="center"> >_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |Reached|No longer| Died | Moved, | Moved, |Dropped ated | a certi- |maximum|receives | | known | not |out\2\ with | ficate of |age\1\ | special | | to |known to | |education| |continue|continue | ___________|_______|_________|______|________|_________|_______ 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 ___________|_______|_________|______|________|_________|_______ | | | | | | 33,427 | 5,959 | 70,448 |1,791 |148,031 | 59,940 |89,672 29 | 5 | 15,438 | 245 | 34,655 | 10,897 | 3,255 34 | 4 | 16,583 | 312 | 35,087 | 12,219 | 7,117 213 | 8 | 14,995 | 337 | 32,715 | 12,743 |19,041 4,668 | 48 | 12,790 | 336 | 25,024 | 11,194 |24,578 12,914 | 777 | 7,390 | 262 | 13,831 | 7,293 |21,801 8,789 | 418 | 2,298 | 137 | 4,576 | 3,258 | 9,693 3,418 | 904 | 620 | 77 | 1,450 | 1,429 | 3,074 3,362 | 3,795 | 334 | 85 | 693 | 907 | 1,113 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 33,427 | 5,959 | 70,448 |1,791 |148,031 | 59,940 |89,672 14,813 | 1,558 | 41,069 | 580 | 79,863 | 33,692 |51,291 11,820 | 2,472 | 2,729 | 380 | 16,536 | 5,791 |10,599 2,342 | 579 | 8,038 | 169 | 34,806 | 13,721 |20,107 579 | 97 | 10,582 | 32 | 3,734 | 1,673 | 1,885 1,184 | 652 | 420 | 249 | 2,678 | 775 | 986 905 | 107 | 5,691 | 202 | 6,351 | 2,717 | 2,975 604 | 76 | 605 | 14 | 1,340 | 517 | 600 403 | 123 | 775 | 101 | 1,107 | 441 | 637 170 | 35 | 219 | 25 | 516 | 178 | 194 422 | 215 | 157 | 15 | 649 | 216 | 149 27 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 44 | 17 | 13 158 | 35 | 156 | 14 | 407 | 202 | 236 ___________|_______|_________|______|________|_________|_______

\1\The upper age mandate for providing special education and related services as defined by state law, practice, or court order.
\2\Dropped out is defined as the total who were enrolled at some point in the reporting year, were not enrolled at the end of the report year, and did not exit through any of the other bases described. This category includes dropouts, runaways, GED recipients, expulsions, status unknown, and other exiters.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2002, and unpublished tabulations. (This table was prepared July 2003.)

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