Table 1.
Racial and ethnic composition and primary home language spoken among students in three Northeast US urban high schools participating in a four-week study to assess two interventions (Healthy Choices and Healthy Nudging) to increase meal participation in high schools where all students in all three schools were eligible for free/reduced-price school meals under the US Department of Agriculture Community Eligibility Provision
| Healthy Choices School (n 1177) |
Healthy Nudging School (n 2140) |
Comparison School (n 1297) |
Pearson χ2 | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race/ethnicity (%) | |||||
| Non-Hispanic White | 5·9 | 11·4 | 5·9 | 5·89 | 0·436 |
| Black | 44·6 | 44·5 | 41·5 | ||
| Hispanic | 44·9 | 39·4 | 51·7 | ||
| Other race† | 0·8 | 1·3 | 0·4 | ||
| Asian | 3·8 | 3·4 | 0·5 | ||
| Students from non-English home language (%) | 42·8 | 42·8 | 40·5 | 1·69 | 0·430 |
| Students with disabilities (%) | 17·9 | 16·4 | 12·5 | 15·0 | 0·001 |
†
Other race includes American Indian or Pacific Islander students and students who reported being two or more races.