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Iowa: classified-EL share over time
Annual share of public-school students classified as English Learners.
Methodology note
- Iowa Department of Education, October 1 fall snapshot (approximately 40,000 EL students). EL identification via home language survey plus ELPA21 screener; K-12 public denominator. The 0.8 percentage-point increase over NCES's fall 2021 value (6.2%) is a modest upward continuation of the NCES trajectory. Iowa does not publish a multi-year EL table for fall 2018-2021 in directly accessible form, so methodological continuity with the prior NCES series cannot be confirmed from overlapping observations.
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Each point is the fall-enrollment share of students classified as English Learners in Iowa'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 Iowa 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) ; Iowa Department of Education, Comprehensive State Literacy Plan 2024-2032 (opens in a new tab) .