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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 29.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Q. 2008;89(1):177–198. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2008.00527.x

Appendix.

Logit Model Predicting Propensity to be Placed in ESL of Mexican-Origin Students in Schools Offering ESL (N = 625)

Female 1.21
Parent education: College 1.09
Parent education: Some secondary 0.90
Parent education: Some college −0.56
Age at Wave I 0.52
Usually speak language other than English at home 0.12
First generation arrived before age 5 −0.28
First generation arrived after age 5 3.83
Second generation 0.48
AH-PVT (English proficiency—vocabulary test) −0.03
Low math placement Grade 9 1.53
Retained before Grade 6 −2.40
Physical attractiveness 0.11
Parents receive food stamps −1.62
Respondent happy in neighborhood 0.26
Respondent knows people in neighborhood −0.87
Respondent visits fitness/recreation center in neighborhood 1.18
Parents moved to neighborhood because of children 0.61
Male unemployment rate in respondent’s neighborhood 1.29
Proportion linguistically isolated in respondent’s neighborhood 3.40
Average proportion linguistically isolated in respondent’s
   neighborhood in school
21.00
Proportion Latino in school −15.73
Proportion Mexican in school 3.59
Proportion of students usually speaking language other than English
   at home at school
8.97
Proportion of parents with no high school diploma in school 12.04
Proportion 1st or 2nd generation in school −8.27
Average class size in school 0.13
Urban school −0.89
Rural school 0.92
West 0.06
South −0.15
Intercept −13.65
Pseudo R2 0.56