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Percentages of Students with Disabilities Earning High School Diplomas
by Need/Resource* Capacity of School Districts 1998-99 and 1999-2000

*Need is defined by a weighted average of the 1991 kindergarten through grade 6 percent free/reduced price lunch percentage and the 1990 Census poverty percentage.  Resources are defined as the ratio of district wealth per pupil to State average wealth per pupil. ** Big 4: Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Yonkers.

Students with disabilities in wealthy districts (low need/relative to resources) earn high school diplomas at a significantly higher rate than students in districts with higher need/relative to resources.

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