Table 5. Number and percentage of public schools that had limited-English-proficient (LEP) students, percentage of enrolled students who were LEP, and percentage of schools with LEP students that used various ways of determining LEP status, by state: 2003

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Table 5. Number and percentage of public schools that had limited-English-proficient (LEP) students, percentage of enrolled students who were LEP, and percentage of schools with LEP students that used various ways of determining LEP status, by state: 2003–04

State	Number of schools that had any LEP students	Percent of all schools that had any LEP students	Percent of enrolled students who were LEP	Percent of schools with LEP students that used various ways of determining LEP status
State	Number of schools that had any LEP students	Percent of all schools that had any LEP students	Percent of enrolled students who were LEP	Information provided by parent	Teacher observation or referral	Home language survey	Student interview	Student records	Achieve- ment test	Language proficiency test
United States	55,438	62.9	10.8	93.4	82.3	85.0	71.5	91.2	52.8	87.7

Alabama	735	49.4	2.3	96.0	78.4	99.0	72.7	85.6	25.2	78.3
Alaska	290	64.8	13.1	86.6	79.7	74.9	77.5	78.7	60.9	86.1
Arizona	1,308	76.8	16.2	96.5	81.5	94.0	66.7	87.4	52.3	94.6
Arkansas	626	58.4	4.6	92.4	85.2	81.7	70.0	88.5	43.0	75.0
California	7,752	87.4	26.2	93.3	71.9	97.4	60.9	95.2	66.2	98.0

Colorado	1,106	72.9	9.1	90.9	85.1	94.9	74.9	86.5	53.8	90.1
Connecticut	766	75.9	4.1	94.5	93.4	77.0	90.2	95.1	35.5	87.2
Delaware	145	79.2	2.9	97.5	83.8	75.4	74.1	89.7	54.2	80.9
District of Columbia	121	62.7	13.7	97.0	77.5	94.2	66.2	92.1	47.4	90.4
Florida	2,560	82.9	7.9	96.3	69.2	92.5	62.0	88.8	57.8	96.6

Georgia	1,317	70.3	5.2	90.4	91.3	73.7	77.3	92.8	61.7	94.9
Hawaii	267	95.1	6.6	96.4	91.2	77.4	64.1	92.2	50.5	88.9
Idaho	388	59.6	8.2	90.0	86.9	81.8	69.3	81.2	57.1	78.9
Illinois	1,915	46.1	14.3	94.5	94.9	91.0	87.9	95.2	65.4	91.4
Indiana	967	50.9	4.3	96.3	80.9	80.1	74.8	86.2	39.3	82.2

Iowa	678	51.2	4.7	94.0	94.8	75.1	88.5	95.9	50.3	85.7
Kansas	511	36.1	9.9	97.0	93.8	87.1	75.6	87.4	59.2	86.7
Kentucky	629	45.1	1.5	92.0	83.5	71.1	74.7	85.7	41.4	66.3
Louisiana	489	33.4	2.9	98.3	82.6	83.9	74.9	93.9	48.0	82.9
Maine	208	29.7	2.0	93.9	93.4	86.1	90.2	93.5	44.1	60.4

Maryland	876	64.3	6.1	92.6	76.6	61.3	75.7	91.4	24.0	81.6
Massachusetts	1,138	63.3	11.3	91.5	90.4	72.8	75.2	93.2	39.3	85.2
Michigan	1,751	47.7	3.4	86.6	90.8	69.4	80.5	89.4	39.6	63.2
Minnesota	1,104	62.0	8.6	96.4	95.7	94.3	88.1	99.0	62.0	86.3
Mississippi	372	36.0	1.3	97.6	87.1	60.1	72.3	91.9	37.3	70.0

Missouri	761	38.1	3.6	95.9	90.8	77.2	81.7	94.2	42.2	84.2
Montana	124	21.1	12.3	92.6	80.4	33.6	60.9	85.4	29.6	43.6
Nebraska	374	32.7	8.0	95.2	81.8	70.0	66.6	90.8	26.8	82.7
Nevada	404	81.0	14.5	95.4	88.6	83.5	66.9	91.3	47.9	95.1
New Hampshire	229	52.5	2.7	98.9	84.3	92.5	81.3	86.3	44.5	86.0

New Jersey	1,694	70.9	6.0	89.4	89.8	67.5	88.7	91.3	49.8	92.3
New Mexico	624	88.8	18.4	95.3	81.5	96.7	52.2	84.7	53.9	97.7
New York	3,064	72.0	8.2	94.9	82.4	81.6	76.8	87.4	57.2	91.4
North Carolina	1,821	82.8	5.0	90.5	77.0	94.1	66.5	79.2	45.9	87.0
North Dakota	105	26.2	5.2	92.0	97.8	67.0	88.1	92.1	63.7	80.4

Ohio	1,515	39.1	1.7	96.7	89.3	54.9	73.3	93.8	32.0	61.9
Oklahoma	983	62.8	6.8	94.7	70.3	96.6	54.5	76.1	51.9	83.9
Oregon	992	79.5	10.2	92.9	94.4	83.5	72.5	89.6	61.3	85.0
Pennsylvania	1,750	56.3	2.7	94.4	92.2	89.5	86.4	97.0	59.2	85.9
Rhode Island	165	54.3	6.8	91.9	82.8	88.3	74.9	91.8	43.2	89.1

South Carolina	737	65.8	2.2	96.3	84.3	70.3	77.8	89.2	40.9	71.0
South Dakota	116	23.5	5.8	78.7	78.5	48.6	71.0	78.2	52.4	77.9
Tennessee	845	51.7	3.8	99.4	92.2	80.4	79.0	90.5	50.0	73.5
Texas	6,221	83.8	14.8	92.9	73.2	99.9	59.3	97.1	65.0	96.6
Utah	636	82.0	6.3	95.4	89.9	79.1	78.4	91.7	47.4	92.8

Vermont	137	41.5	2.1	89.7	81.2	85.0	61.4	86.2	29.5	63.1
Virginia	1,137	56.7	4.2	91.0	85.2	70.1	77.4	88.7	47.0	80.3
Washington	1,594	76.9	9.8	88.0	84.8	70.9	67.0	88.4	39.7	86.7
West Virginia	150	19.4	0.9	92.6	82.7	79.0	91.4	87.1	46.2	69.7
Wisconsin	1,112	54.3	3.9	93.9	89.2	69.8	75.9	88.5	36.7	78.6
Wyoming	131	37.2	6.8	96.9	96.3	92.5	66.2	82.3	35.6	88.6

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey, Public School Data File,
2003–04.

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