Definition: Number of public school school students receiving special education services, by race/ethnicity (e.g., in 2019, 455,071 Hispanic/Latino students were enrolled in special education in California).Percentage of public school students receiving special education services, by race/ethnicity (e.g., among California students enrolled in special education in 2019, 57.2% were Hispanic/Latino).
Footnote: Years presented are the final year of a school year (e.g., 2018-19 is shown as 2019). The notation S refers to percentages that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 160 total special education enrollees, and to numbers that have been suppressed in order to protect confidentiality. N/A means that data are not available or that the percentage was far above average for that year (more than 3 standard deviations above the mean).