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New Jersey: classified-EL share over time
Annual share of public-school students classified as English Learners.
Methodology note
- New Jersey Department of Education, mid-October fall snapshot (151,245 Multilingual Learners of 1,426,840 enrolled). Identification under N.J.A.C. 6A:15: home language survey, records review, and English-language proficiency assessment. The 2023 amendments to N.J.A.C. 6A:15 expanded identification criteria, contributing alongside documented enrollment growth (~94,000 in 2019-20 to over 130,000 in 2023-24) to the 2.4 percentage-point gap from NCES's fall 2021 value (8.2%). New Jersey does not publish a multi-year EL series 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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About this figure
Each point is the fall-enrollment share of students classified as English Learners in New Jersey'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 New Jersey 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) ; New Jersey Department of Education, 2023-2024 School Performance Reports — State Detail (opens in a new tab) .