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Secondary School Experiences and Academic Performance of Students With Mental Retardation
NCSER 2009-3020
July 2009

Table 3.  Academic courses taken in any type of educational setting by students with mental retardation, overall and by parent-reported levels of cognitive functioning


  Overall High Moderate Low
Percentage who took:        
At least one academic course 96 98 96 90
Language arts 94 97 94 85
Mathematics 92 95 93 84
Science 74 83 72 59
Social studies 75 87 73 55
Foreign language 9 6 9 16
NOTE: Percentages are population estimates based on weighted samples that rangefrom approximately 70 to 550 across variables.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research, National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), Wave 1 student's school program survey, 2002.