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Delaware: classified-EL share over time
Annual share of public-school students classified as English Learners.
Methodology note
- Delaware Department of Education, September 30 fall snapshot. Identification via the Alternative English Learner Identification Protocol (parent questionnaire, observation protocol, EL determination narrative) plus WIDA Screener for grades 1-12; Delaware is a founding WIDA Consortium member. Denominator is K-12 public enrollment (18,778 of 141,279). Delaware does not publish historical figures for fall 2018-2021, so methodological continuity with the prior NCES series cannot be confirmed; the 1.8 percentage-point increase over NCES's fall 2021 figure (11.5%) is consistent with the upward trajectory recorded by NCES across 2018-2021.
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Each point is the fall-enrollment share of students classified as English Learners in Delaware's public schools. Observations through fall 2021 are drawn from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Digest of Education Statistics, Table 204.20, the canonical national series; NCES has not yet republished this table for school years after 2021-22. For fall 2023, the catalog falls back to figures published directly by the Delaware state education agency. State-agency methodology may differ from NCES — the methodology note above the data table records the difference, and the dashed line and hollow markers in the chart mark the boundary.
Sources: NCES Digest of Education Statistics 2023, Table 204.20 (opens in a new tab) ; Delaware Department of Education, Multilingual Learners in Delaware (March 2025) (opens in a new tab) .