Full Report - Center for Collaborative Education

This appendix presents additional data on LEP
students with disabilities (LEP-SWD).
Table 1. Characteristics of the LEP-SWD 1 Enrollment, K-12. BPS, SY2009
All LEPs All LEP-SWD
LEP-SWD3 in ELL
Program
LEP-SWD3 Not in
ELL Program
Total Enrollment 10,957 2,052 708 1,344
Male 53.8% 66.2% 64.1% 67.3%
Low income
Native Language
87.5% 91.6% 94.5% 90.1%
Spanish 56.8% 71.5% 81.6% 66.2%
Cape Verdean Creole 8.5% 3.4% 2.3% 4.0%
Chinese Languages 7.8% 5.5% 7.5% 4.4%
Haitian Creole 9.2% 5.2% 2.3% 6.7%
Portuguese 2.2% 1.8% 1.0% 2 2.2%
Somali 2.1% 1.5% 2 1.1% 2 1.6%
Vietnamese 5.6% 4.4% 3.0% 5.1%
Other Languages 7.9% 6.8% 1.3% 2 9.7%
Mobility 13.0% 7.0% 5.8% 7.7%
Notes: 1LEP-SWD includes only students ages 6+ in K-12; 2 Represents less than 10 students. 3 The demographic differences between LEP-SWDs in
ELL programs and those who are significant in the case of income (p= .001, but with minimal effect size) and with respect to native language. The
differences in the native language composition of the two groups is significant in the proportion of Spanish (p