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AI/AN students at high density schools concentrated in rural locations

Results are reported for four mutually exclusive categories of school location: city, suburb, town, and rural. The location of a student's school is not necessarily indicative of where that student's home was located, since students may travel to attend school. Read more about school location.
Grade 4
Grade 8

Percentage of fourth-grade AI/AN students, by school location and school density: 2007

Key: High density schools, Low density schools





Findings

  • Seventy-four percent of AI/AN fourth-graders attending high density schools were concentrated in rural school locations.
  • Twenty-six percent of AI/AN fourth-graders attending low density schools were concentrated in rural school locations.
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–Student group and type of school (121K PDF)
 

* Significantly different (p < .05) from low density schools.
NOTE: AI/AN = American Indian/Alaska Native. School density indicates the proportion of AI/AN students enrolled. High density schools have 25 percent or more AI/AN students. Low density schools have less than 25 percent. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. View complete data for grades 4 and 8 with standard errors.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2007 Mathematics Assessment.

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