Percentage of public school 4th-graders in low-poverty and high-poverty schools, by race/ethnicity: 2009
NOTE: Low-poverty schools are those in which 10 percent or less of students are
eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and high-poverty schools are those in
which more than 75 percent of students are eligible. To be eligible for the National
School Lunch Program, a student must be from a household with an income at or below
185 percent of the poverty level for reduced-price lunch or at or below 130 percent
of the poverty level for free lunch. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2009 Mathematics Assessment, NAEP Data Explorer.