User's Guide: School Report – Page 2

Demographics

Characteristics of students attending this school

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 identified with the characteristics that are described in detail below.

What you are looking for

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 2002.

Not Eligible
Students whose family income falls outside the low-income guidelines as of October 2002.

Ethnic background

African-American
A student having origins in any of the African-American racial groups, not including people of Hispanic origins.

Asian
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.

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 subcontinent.

Students Receiving ESL/bilingual education services:

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

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

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

Students receiving special-education services:

Resource
A student whose Individualized Education Program (IEP) services are provided in alternate or regular-education settings for less than 50 percent of the school day or week.

Self-contained
A student whose IEP services are provided outside of the regular-education classroom for more than 50 percent of the school day or week.

Parents’ education

The data for the other pie charts are collected by the school and apply to the school as a whole, but 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 grades that participated in state assessments. At the elementary- school level, however, RIDE uses the parents’ education level as reported by students in the highest grade tested within that school because the information is more reliable than the data from lower grades.