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Number and percentage of students in kindergarten through grade 12 whose parents reported various frequencies with which students do homework outside of school and the mean number of hours per week students spend on homework, by grade level: 2015–16

Characteristic Number of students in kindergarten through grade 12 (thousands) Frequency with which student does homework outside of school   Mean hours per week spent doing homework1
Less than once a week 1-2 days per week 3-4 days per week 5 or more days per week Never Child does not have homework
Number (thousands)   Percent   Number (thousands)   Percent   Number (thousands)   Percent   Number (thousands)   Percent   Number (thousands)   Percent   Number (thousands)   Percent  
Total 51,162 3,003   5.9   7,503   14.7   20,333   39.7   17,225   33.7   1,619   3.2   1,479   2.9   5.1
Student’s grade level                                                    
Kindergarten 5,070 367   7.2   916   18.1   1,897   37.4   1,350   26.6   74 ! 1.5 ! 467   9.2   3.3
First Grade 4,094 166   4.1   443   10.8   2,068   50.5   1,240   30.3   62 ! 1.5 ! 115   2.8   4.0
Second Grade 3,926 75   1.9   341   8.7   2,053   52.3   1,310   33.4       40 ! 1.0 ! 4.0
Third Grade 3,992 80   2.0   321   8.0   2,033   50.9   1,452   36.4   64 ! 1.6 ! 43 ! 1.1 ! 4.4
Fourth Grade 3,994 249   6.2   518   13.0   1,892   47.4   1,227   30.7   42 ! 1.1 ! 67 ! 1.7 ! 4.5
Fifth Grade 4,053 119   2.9   407   10.0   1,800   44.4   1,552   38.3   89 ! 2.2 ! 87   2.2   4.9
Sixth Grade 3,816 182   4.8   612   16.0   1,556   40.8   1,304   34.2   102 ! 2.7 ! 60 ! 1.6 ! 4.9
Seventh Grade 3,728 204   5.5   684   18.3   1,387   37.2   1,264   33.9   146   3.9   44   1.2   5.0
Eighth Grade 4,058 423   10.4   785   19.3   1,241   30.6   1,368   33.7   173   4.3   68   1.7   5.1
Ninth Grade 3,884 347   8.9   761   19.6   1,056   27.2   1,396   35.9   189   4.9   135   3.5   6.1
Tenth Grade 3,918 313   8.0   594   15.2   1,286   32.8   1,421   36.3   208   5.3   96   2.4   6.6
Eleventh Grade 3,429 206   6.0   586   17.1   973   28.4   1,392   40.6   155   4.5   117   3.4   8.0
Twelfth Grade 3,200 274   8.6   535   16.7   1,092   34.1   951   29.7   207   6.5   140 ! 4.4 ! 6.5
‡ Reporting standards not met. There were too few cases for a reliable estimate.
! Interpret data with caution; coefficient of variation is between 30 and 50 percent.
1 Students whose parent reports that they "never" do homework or "do not have homework" are coded as zero on the number of hours spent doing homework per week.
NOTE: Students who were homeschooled were excluded from the table. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Parent and Family Involvement in Education Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES), 2016.