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NAEP Technical DocumentationTarget Population of the NAEP 2003 National Main Assessment

The target population for the 2003 national main assessment included all students in public or private schools who were enrolled in the fourth or eighth grades in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Counts of fourth- and eighth-grade public schools and the corresponding estimated number of students are found on the page Distribution of Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Schools and Enrollment in Public School Sampling Frame. Counts of twelfth-grade public schools and the corresponding estimated number of students are found on the page Sampling Frame for the 2003 National Main Assessment. Counts of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-grade private schools and the corresponding estimated number of students are provided in the table below.

Number of private schools, enrollment, by private school stratum and grade: 2003

Grade	Private school stratum	Number of schools	Enrollment
All	All private	44,675	1,018,136
4	Total private	19,535	403,322
	Catholic	6,697	210,835
	Lutheran	1,430	21,761
	Conservative Christian	3,872	59,892
	Other private and unknown affiliation	7,536	110,834
8	Total private	16,996	348,235
	Catholic	5,999	180,360
	Lutheran	1,194	16,786
	Conservative Christian	3,321	47,838
	Other private and unknown affiliation	6,482	103,251
12	Total private	8,144	266,579
	Catholic	1,437	138,454
	Lutheran	107	5,141
	Conservative Christian	2,539	31,612
	Other private and unknown affiliation	4,061	91,372
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1999-2000.

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