A Closer Look: Students with Disabilities (SD)

 Fifty-six percent of students with disabilities lacked more than one requirement to reach a midlvel curriculum in 2009.

 Thirty-nine percent of students without disabilities lacked only science to reach a midlevel curriculum compared to 17 percent of students with disabilities.

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Percentage distribution of graduates who attained a standard curriculum but not a midlevel curriculum, by missing requirement and student disability status: 2009

Student disability status	Why the graduate did not attain a midlevel curriculum
	Science only			Mathematics only			Foreign languages only			More than one requirement
	Percentage of graduates		Standard error	Percentage of graduates		Standard error	Percentage of graduates		Standard error	Percentage of graduates		Standard error
Students with disabilities	16.6	*	(1.79)	11.0	*	(1.82)	16.5		(1.65)	55.9	*	(2.41)
Students without disabilities	39.0		(1.78)	20.4		(1.81)	17.2		(1.16)	23.3		(1.17)

 

* Significantly different (p<.05) from students without disabilities.

NOTE: Details may not sum to total because of rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Transcript Study (HSTS), 2009.