What you are looking at

You are looking at a demographic description of who is in the school. The pie charts show the percentages of the total school population who are identified with the characteristics which are described in detail below.

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You are looking to get a sense of the school’s composition and diversity.

Demographic characteristics

Eligible for subsidized lunch

Eligible for free or reduced (price) lunch: students whose family incomes fall below certain income (poverty or near-poverty) guidelines. This measure indicates the percent of students who were eligible for free or reduced-price lunches in October 2000.

Not Eligible: Students whose family income falls outside the low-income guidelines as of October 2000.

Ethnic background

Asian/Pacific Islander: A student having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia or the Pacific Islands, e.g., China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands and Samoa
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Black: A student having origins in any of the African-American racial groups, not including people of Hispanic origins.

Hispanic: A student of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.

Native American: A student having origins in any of the original peoples of North America, including American Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts.

White: A student having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East or the Indian Sub-Continent.

Limited English Proficient (LEP):

(LEP) Bilingual: A student who receives instruction in English and another language to support content-area learning while learning English as a second language.

(LEP) English as a Second Language: A student who receives content area instruction solely in English while learning English as a second language.

(LEP) In both programs:  A student who receives instruction for a part of the day in both a bilingual and an ESL program.

Special Education

Part-time regular/resource program: A student whose Individual Educational Plan (IEP) services are provided in alternate or regular education settings for less than 50% of the school day or week.

Self-contained program: A student whose Individual Educational Plan (IEP) services are provided outside of the regular education classroom for more than 50% of the school day or week.

Parents’ education

While the data for the other pie charts are collected by the school and apply to the school as a whole, individual test-takers report the highest level of their parents’ education directly on the test materials. Thus, the pie chart for parents’ education applies only to the children in the one grade who took the test. However, for elementary schools we use the parents’ education level as reported by students on the highest grade tested within that school because the information is more reliable than the data from lower grades.

* Special to the district and
* State reports

Type of Schooling

		Public enrollment: The number (and percentage) of Rhode Island’s students who are enrolled in public schools, governed by a district, as of October 2000. Non-public enrollment: The number (and percentage) of students who attend private or parochial schools, as of October 2000. At-home instructed: The number (and percentage) of students who have received permission from the school committee of their local district to be instructed at home according to the provisions of Section 16-19-2 of the General Laws of Rhode Island, as of October 2000.