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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Policy Anal Manage. 2012 Spring;31(2):312–337. doi: 10.1002/pam.21602

Table A2.

Variation in Grade Span in Fifth Grade

Lowest Grade-Level in School
Highest Grade-Level
in School
Pre-K or
Kindergarten
1 2 3 4 5 6 Total
4 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.8 Elementary
70.6%
5 40.6 1.1 0.4 2.0 1.3 0.1 0.0 45.5
6 19.7 0.1 0.3 0.4 1.4 2.4 0.0 24.3

7 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.3 Combined
29.4%
8 21.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.6 3.3 0.0 25.5
9 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
11 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
12 3.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 3.3
Total 85.5 1.6 0.8 2.7 3.3 6.1 0.0 100.0

Notes: N=9380. “Combined” schools are defined as schools with highest grade equal to 7 or higher.