Percentage of public school 4th-graders, by percentage of students in the school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and selected teacher and school characteristics: 2005

Poverty and Student Mathematics Achievement

Table 15-2. Percentage of public school 4th-graders, by percentage of students in the school eligible for free or reduced-price lunch and selected teacher and school characteristics: 2005

		Students in school eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunch
Teacher or school characteristic	Total	10 percent or less	11–25 percent	26–50 percent	51–75 percent	More than 75 percent

Total	100	100	100	100	100	100
Teacher characteristic
Number of years spent teaching
4 or less	21	17	17	18	22	28
5–9	26	26	24	23	24	31
10–19	27	29	28	28	27	24
20 or more	27	28	31	31	27	18
School characteristic
Mathematics specialist available
Full time	13	10	8	8	11	26
Part time	18	23	16	16	18	19
Not at all	69	68	75	76	71	56
Time per week spent in mathematics instruction
Less than 3 hours	1	#	#	1	1	1
3–4.9 hours	16	20	20	18	15	11
5–6.9 hours	67	72	70	67	66	62
7 hours or more	16	9	10	14	18	26
Percent of students receiving Title I services
10 or less	52	90	74	53	38	24
11–25	15	9	23	26	14	3
26–50	9	1	3	15	13	6
51–75	3	#	#	19		5
More than 75	20	#	#	5	25	62
Percent of students receiving English as a Second Language instruction
10 or less	78	97	92	82	70	57
11–25	11	3!	7	15	16	11
26–50	6	#	1	3	9	12
51–75	3	#	#	#	3	9
More than 75	3	#	#	#	2	10
Enrollment
Less than 300	11	6	10	14	13	10
300–499	32	30	34	38	31	28
500–699	31	39	33	27	31	31
700 or more	25	26	23	21	26	31
Location
Central city	31	15	18	22	30	59
Urban fringe/large town	44	71	59	42	33	27
Rural/small town	25	14	23	36	36	14

# Rounds to zero.
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for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2005 Mathematics Assessment, previously unpublished tabulation (October 2005).