About the Assessment: District Inclusion Rates

NAEP has always endeavored to assess all students selected as a part of its sampling process, including students who are classified by their schools as students with disabilities (SD) and/or as English language learners (ELL). The decision to exclude any of these students is made by school personnel. School personnel are encouraged to use inclusion criteria provided by NAEP and may discuss their inclusion decisions with NAEP field staff. Some students may participate with testing accommodations. Read more about the NAEP inclusion policy, including exclusion rates from current and previous assessments in all subject areas.

The tables below show the percentage of students identified as SD and/or ELL, and provide the rate of students excluded and accommodated in two ways: as a percentage of all students in the NAEP sample, or as a percentage of students identified as SD and/or ELL. Tables that provide percentages of SD students include those identified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (Title 29 U.S.C. 794 Section 504), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of handicap in federally assisted programs and activities. In addition, the percentages are further disaggregated in the SD tables by showing those who were identified as having an Individualized Education Program (IEP) .

Grade 4 SD/ELL

Percentage of all students

Percentage of identified students

Percentage of eighth-grade public school students identified as students with disabilities (SD) and/or English language learners (ELL), and percentage excluded and assessed in NAEP reading, as a percentage of all identified SD and/or ELL students, by jurisdiction: 2009
	Percentage of identified SD and/or ELL students
Jurisdiction	Excluded	Assessed	Assessed without accommodations	Assessed with accommodations
National public	24	76	31	45
Large city	22	78	39	38
Atlanta	28	72	13	59
Austin	31	69	54	15
Baltimore City	68	32	4	28
Boston	46	54	14	41
Charlotte	23	77	21	57
Chicago	22	78	20	59
Cleveland	57	43	5	37
Detroit	29	71	27	44
District of Columbia (DCPS)	64	36	10	26
Fresno	8	92	74	18
Houston	37	63	41	22
Jefferson County (KY)	52	48	18	30
Los Angeles	10	90	68	22
Miami-Dade	32	68	4	64
Milwaukee	31	69	9	60
New York City	25	75	3	72
Philadelphia	26	74	10	64
San Diego	11	89	65	25
NOTE: SD includes those identified under section 504. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. DCPS = District of Columbia Public Schools. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2009 Reading Assessment.