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The following table shows the unweighted counts and percentages of schools that were eligible and ineligible, by reason for ineligibility, for the public school writing assessment samples.
| Eligibility status | Grade 4 | Grade 8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unweighted count of schools | Unweighted percentage | Unweighted count of schools | Unweighted percentage | |
| All sampled writing public schools | 1,510 | 100.00 | 2,100 | 100.00 |
| Eligible | 1,490 | 98.28 | 2,050 | 97.71 |
| Ineligible | 26 | 1.72 | 48 | 2.29 |
| Has sampled grade, but no eligible students | 2 | 0.13 | 1 | 0.05 |
| Does not have sampled grade | 9 | 0.59 | 15 | 0.71 |
| Closed | 10 | 0.66 | 15 | 0.71 |
| Not a regular school | 3 | 0.20 | 16 | 0.76 |
| Other ineligible | 1 | 0.07 | 1 | 0.05 |
| Duplicate on sampling frame | 1 | 0.07 | 0 | 0.00 |
| NOTE: Numbers of schools are rounded to nearest ten, except those pertaining to ineligible schools. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. Percentages are based on unrounded counts.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2017 National Writing Assessment. | ||||