Percentage of students in low- and high-poverty public elementary and secondary schools, by race/ethnicity and sex: School year 2010

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Percentage of students in low- and high-poverty public elementary and secondary schools, by race/ethnicity and sex: School year 2010–11

¹ Total includes other racial/ethnic groups not shown separately in the figure.
NOTE: Low-poverty schools are those where 25 percent or fewer students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch; high-poverty schools are those where more than 75 percent of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey," 2010–11.