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Integration of Students
with Disabilities (Ages 6-21)
By Need/Resource Capacity Category
of School Districts and Other Districts
December 1, 2002
Source: PD-1/4
|
Region/Grouping* |
Number of Students Ages 6-21 |
Percent of School Day in General
Education Programs in General Education Buildings |
Separate
Settings** |
|
80 to 100% |
40 to 79% |
Less than 40% |
|
New York City |
137,154 |
47.0% |
2.4% |
41.4% |
9.2% |
|
Large City Districts |
23,256 |
53.0% |
23.1% |
18.7% |
5.2% |
|
High N/RC Districts |
35,579 |
44.0% |
16.9% |
31.2% |
7.9% |
|
Urban-Suburban |
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Rural |
26,430 |
53.5% |
22.0% |
22.5% |
2.1% |
|
Average N/RC |
111,376 |
56.7% |
20.3% |
18.3% |
4.7% |
|
Low N/RC |
46,602 |
61.4% |
21.4% |
11.2% |
6.0% |
|
High Need/Resource Capacity School
Districts |
222,419 |
47.9% |
9.2% |
35.2% |
7.7% |
|
Average and Low Need/ Resource Capacity
School Districts |
157,978 |
58.1% |
20.6% |
16.2% |
5.1% |
|
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|
Big Five Cities*** |
160,410 |
47.9% |
5.4% |
38.1% |
8.6% |
|
Rest of State |
219,987 |
55.2% |
20.2% |
19.4% |
5.2% |
|
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Buffalo |
9,072 |
55.0% |
20.1% |
19.2% |
5.6% |
|
New York City |
137,154 |
47.0% |
2.4% |
41.4% |
9.2% |
|
Rochester |
6,535 |
60.1% |
3.0% |
31.0% |
6.0% |
|
Syracuse |
4,390 |
53.7% |
30.4% |
13.3% |
2.6% |
|
Yonkers**** |
3,259 |
31.9% |
61.9% |
0.0% |
6.1% |
|
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Total Public |
380,397 |
52.1% |
14.0% |
27.3% |
6.6% |
|
Total State |
386,082 |
51.8% |
13.9% |
27.0% |
7.4% |
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* |
See
Appendix 38 for definition of Need/Resource Capacity
categories of school districts. |
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** |
Separate settings are those attended by students with
disabilities only. Such settings include public separate
facility, private separate facility, public residential
facility, private residential facility, and home/hospital
placement. |
|
*** |
Big
Five Cities are New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse,
and Yonkers. |
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**** |
Yonkers data are under review and will be revised. |
- The data above indicate that large
percentages of students with disabilities spend less than 40
percent of the school day in general education programs in New
York City and Rochester compared to other regions and groupings of
school districts.
- Data also indicate that New York
City and Urban-Suburban High Need school districts place the
greatest percentage of their school-age students with disabilities
in separate settings, compared to other regions and groupings of
school districts.
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