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Minnesota: classified-EL share over time
Annual share of public-school students classified as English Learners.
Methodology note
- Minnesota Department of Education, October 1 MARSS snapshot (84,050 EL students of 869,967 enrolled). Identification under Minn. Stat. 124D.59: parent-declared language plus valid English-proficiency assessment. The Minnesota denominator includes pre-K, which is broader than NCES's K-12 denominator and may account for a small portion of the 0.8 percentage-point gap from NCES's fall 2021 value (8.8%); the rest reflects documented growth. A single overlapping point (MDE fall 2020 = 8.5%, NCES = 8.6%) suggests methodological alignment within ~0.1 percentage point for that year.
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Each point is the fall-enrollment share of students classified as English Learners in Minnesota'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 Minnesota 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) ; Minnesota Department of Education, English Learners in Minnesota Report 2023-24 (opens in a new tab) .