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NAEP Technical Documentation Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Schools and Enrollment in the 2017 Public School Writing Sampling Frame
The following table presents the number of schools and estimated enrollment from the fourth- and eighth-grade Common Core of Data (CCD) frame by census region. Grade-specific enrollment was estimated for each school as the average grade enrollment for grades 1 through 8.
| Region | Grade 4 | Grade 8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schools | Estimated enrollment | Schools | Estimated enrollment | |
| Total | 51,336 | 3,795,118 | 28,571 | 3,697,944 |
| Northeast | 7,983 | 586,154 | 4,504 | 583,552 |
| Midwest | 12,406 | 782,349 | 7,813 | 782,447 |
| South | 17,673 | 1,493,999 | 9,275 | 1,434,874 |
| West | 13,274 | 932,616 | 6,979 | 897,071 |
| 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. | ||||
Last updated 01 August 2022 (ML)