Using Information

Characteristics of Students Attending This School

These pie charts respresent a demographic description of who is in the school.  They show the percentages of the total school population identified with the characteristics that are described in detail below.

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 2004.

Not Eligible: Students whose family income falls outside the low-income guidelines as of October 2005.

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.

Students receiving special-education services:

Nonrecipient: Percent of students in the school who do not receive special-education services.

Self-contained: Percent of students in the school in self-contained special-education classes, in which instruction is provided by a special educator in a separate special-education setting for more than half of the instructional day.

General Education with Supports: Percent of students in the school for whom instruction is provided by a special educator for less than half of the instructional day; the rest of the instruction is provided in a general-education setting.

Homebound/Hospitalized: Percent of students in the school/district who receive education services at home (because of medical reasons) or in a hospital setting.