Table 5.2a. Percentage distribution of 8th-grade public school students who report that people in their home speak a language other than English, by frequency of other language spoken and race/ethnicity: 2003
Race/ethnicity
Never
Once in a while
Half the time
All or most of the time
Total
58.3
20.8
8.0
12.9
White, non-Hispanic
72.1
21.2
3.3
3.5
Black, non-Hispanic
65.2
21.4
6.0
7.4
Hispanic
9.4
19.6
23.9
47.1
Asian/Pacific Islander
10.8
14.9
25.1
49.2
American Indian/Alaska Native
50.7
27.0
11.7
10.7
NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Reading Assessment, 2003.
