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Maryland: classified-EL share over time

Annual share of public-school students classified as English Learners.

0% 4% 8% 11% 15% 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2023 2011: 6.5% 2012: 7.0% 2013: 7.1% 2014: 6.9% 2015: 7.2% 2016: 7.8% 2017: 8.9% 2018: 9.4% 2019: 10.3% 2020: 10.1% 2021: 11.2% 2023: 12.6% (state agency)
Between 2011 and 2023, the classified-EL share rose from 6.5% to 12.6%. Observations through fall 2021 are from NCES; observations for fall 2023 are from the Maryland state education agency (Maryland Department of Education, Office of Multilingual Education — 2023-24 EL Data). State-agency methodology may differ from NCES; see the note below.
NCES Digest, Table 204.20 Maryland state education agency

Methodology note

  • Maryland Department of Education, September 30 fall snapshot (112,081 EL students). Maryland publishes a multi-year EL series whose fall 2020 and fall 2021 figures match NCES Digest Table 204.20 within 0.01 percentage points (MDE 88,834 / NCES 10.1% and MDE 98,566 / NCES 11.2%), so the Maryland series can be treated as methodologically continuous with the prior NCES series. The 1.4 percentage-point increase over NCES's fall 2021 value (11.2%) tracks the documented upward trajectory through 2023-24.
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About this figure

Each point is the fall-enrollment share of students classified as English Learners in Maryland'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 Maryland 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) ; Maryland Department of Education, Office of Multilingual Education — 2023-24 EL Data (opens in a new tab) .

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