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Grade-Level Retention, by Program Participation, Student Characteristic, and Grade,
Texas Public Schools, 2015-16

Group Grade Retained Students Rate (%)
At-risk Grade K 4,540 166,354 2.7
Grade 1 11,588 202,116 5.7
Grade 2 7,115 203,354 3.5
Grade 3 4,081 195,457 2.1
Grade 4 2,020 182,122 1.1
Grade 5 1,202 196,575 0.6
Grade 6 1,518 182,360 0.8
Grade 7 1,944 178,369 1.1
Grade 8 1,332 178,592 0.7
Grade 9 25,687 201,450 12.8
Grade 10 15,979 168,258 9.5
Grade 11 10,099 137,296 7.4
Grade 12 10,116 141,461 7.2
 
Total 97,221 2,333,764 4.2
 
Bilingual Grade K 932 70,742 1.3
Grade 1 3,475 77,647 4.5
Grade 2 2,402 74,391 3.2
Grade 3 1,593 70,797 2.3
Grade 4 661 61,979 1.1
Grade 5 249 52,491 0.5
Grade 6 46 6,871 0.7
Grade 7 6 792 0.8
Grade 8 1 460 0.2
Grade 9 2 70 2.9
Grade 10 2 28 7.1
Grade 11 0 16 0.0
Grade 12 1 11 9.1
 
Total 9,370 416,295 2.3
 
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Grade 9 9,859 140,230 7.0
Grade 10 6,739 171,860 3.9
Grade 11 4,268 152,341 2.8
Grade 12 2,932 157,182 1.9
 
Total 23,798 621,613 3.8
 
English as a second language Grade K 497 23,024 2.2
Grade 1 1,047 26,737 3.9
Grade 2 642 26,528 2.4
Grade 3 375 26,349 1.4
Grade 4 206 23,485 0.9
Grade 5 184 21,471 0.9
Grade 6 412 51,660 0.8
Grade 7 509 46,889 1.1
Grade 8 319 38,672 0.8
Grade 9 5,309 36,078 14.7
Grade 10 2,740 25,749 10.6
Grade 11 1,531 17,461 8.8
Grade 12 1,900 15,786 12.0
 
Total 15,671 379,889 4.1
 
English language learner Grade K 1,844 102,828 1.8
Grade 1 5,439 114,105 4.8
Grade 2 3,650 111,188 3.3
Grade 3 2,350 107,289 2.2
Grade 4 1,079 94,599 1.1
Grade 5 564 81,915 0.7
Grade 6 573 65,774 0.9
Grade 7 654 54,152 1.2
Grade 8 460 44,972 1.0
Grade 9 7,939 43,352 18.3
Grade 10 3,503 29,408 11.9
Grade 11 1,936 19,800 9.8
Grade 12 2,274 17,585 12.9
 
Total 32,265 886,967 3.6
 
Gifted and talented Grade K 10 12,281 0.1
Grade 1 15 19,043 0.1
Grade 2 14 28,413 <0.1
Grade 3 25 33,599 0.1
Grade 4 13 37,752 <0.1
Grade 5 11 41,444 <0.1
Grade 6 23 40,394 0.1
Grade 7 25 39,664 0.1
Grade 8 19 38,255 <0.1
Grade 9 357 37,317 1.0
Grade 10 292 34,999 0.8
Grade 11 207 32,910 0.6
Grade 12 114 31,078 0.4
 
Total 1,125 427,149 0.3
 
Immigrant Grade K 95 7,387 1.3
Grade 1 293 8,426 3.5
Grade 2 193 7,140 2.7
Grade 3 103 5,646 1.8
Grade 4 89 5,131 1.7
Grade 5 56 4,920 1.1
Grade 6 23 4,593 0.5
Grade 7 29 4,701 0.6
Grade 8 37 5,267 0.7
Grade 9 772 7,502 10.3
Grade 10 472 5,883 8.0
Grade 11 244 4,377 5.6
Grade 12 537 3,399 15.8
 
Total 2,943 74,372 4.0
 
Migrant Grade K 47 1,540 3.1
Grade 1 140 1,967 7.1
Grade 2 97 1,967 4.9
Grade 3 51 1,971 2.6
Grade 4 27 1,971 1.4
Grade 5 17 2,049 0.8
Grade 6 13 2,108 0.6
Grade 7 42 2,223 1.9
Grade 8 35 2,251 1.6
Grade 9 475 2,596 18.3
Grade 10 289 2,187 13.2
Grade 11 133 1,873 7.1
Grade 12 105 2,192 4.8
 
Total 1,471 26,895 5.5
 
Overage Grade K 36 16,156 0.2
Grade 1 283 34,916 0.8
Grade 2 437 47,155 0.9
Grade 3 421 54,665 0.8
Grade 4 354 58,536 0.6
Grade 5 256 62,598 0.4
Grade 6 688 65,794 1.0
Grade 7 1,103 69,975 1.6
Grade 8 809 71,747 1.1
Grade 9 19,456 101,406 19.2
Grade 10 10,635 82,538 12.9
Grade 11 5,809 62,536 9.3
Grade 12 8,620 70,210 12.3
 
Total 48,907 798,232 6.1
 
Special education Grade K 2,290 29,829 7.7
Grade 1 2,357 34,534 6.8
Grade 2 1,142 36,903 3.1
Grade 3 475 39,737 1.2
Grade 4 291 40,981 0.7
Grade 5 286 42,260 0.7
Grade 6 275 40,592 0.7
Grade 7 323 39,201 0.8
Grade 8 331 36,756 0.9
Grade 9 5,518 37,938 14.5
Grade 10 2,833 30,822 9.2
Grade 11 1,621 25,294 6.4
Grade 12 6,714 31,859 21.1
 
Total 24,456 466,706 5.2
 
Title I Grade K 6,985 292,852 2.4
Grade 1 14,979 319,561 4.7
Grade 2 9,135 319,350 2.9
Grade 3 5,717 316,167 1.8
Grade 4 2,695 303,982 0.9
Grade 5 1,509 292,445 0.5
Grade 6 1,691 247,451 0.7
Grade 7 2,106 234,806 0.9
Grade 8 1,537 232,503 0.7
Grade 9 21,748 186,070 11.7
Grade 10 12,537 160,310 7.8
Grade 11 7,633 139,375 5.5
Grade 12 7,273 142,947 5.1
 
Total 95,545 3,187,819 3.0

Note. A dot (.) indicates there were no students in the group or, in rare cases, that a reporting anomaly prevented calculation of the rate.

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