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Kentucky: classified-EL share over time
Annual share of public-school students classified as English Learners.
Methodology note
- Kentucky Department of Education, 2024-25 figure published via KDE's Kentucky Teacher outlet (54,252 EL students per ESSA §8101(20); WIDA Screener identification; K-12 public denominator). The figure runs approximately 3 percentage points above NCES's fall 2021 value (5.4%) over three years, consistent with KDE-documented growth. KDE does not publish historical figures for fall 2018-2021 in directly accessible form, so methodological continuity cannot be confirmed from overlapping observations. KDE also publishes a broader "multilingual learners" total (~84,000) that includes monitoring-period students; the 54,252 figure is the narrower EL classification count comparable to NCES.
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Each point is the fall-enrollment share of students classified as English Learners in Kentucky'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 2024, the catalog falls back to figures published directly by the Kentucky 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) ; Kentucky Department of Education, multilingual learner enrollment (2024-25) (opens in a new tab) .