Teacher, student and LEAP participant demographics
| Riverfront school district (urban) | Town 1 district | Town 2 district | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All participants | Teachers | Students | LEAP | Teachers | Students | LEAP | Teachers | Students | LEAP | |
| n (completion rate %) | 28a | 16,421 | 27,173 | 20a | 445 | 6,664 | 5a | 268 | 3,339 | 1a |
| (89.7) | (90) | (100) | (0) | |||||||
| Race, Ethnicity (%)b | ||||||||||
| White | 44.8 | 86.3 | 26.1 | 45.0 | 88.2 | 34.0 | 20.0 | 87.2 | 43.1 | 100 |
| Black | 34.5 | 3.1 | 30.8 | 35.0 | 2.5 | 27.8 | 60.0 | 6.9 | 25.8 | 0 |
| Hispanic | 17.2 | 4.7 | 31.4 | 15.0 | 7.2 | 30.3 | 20.0 | 2.3 | 14.0 | 0 |
| Asian | 3.5 | 1.5 | 4.0 | 5.0 | <1 | 1.1 | 0 | 3.5 | 1 | 0 |
| Indigenous | 0 | <1 | <1 | 0 | <1 | <1 | 0 | 0 | <1 | 0 |
| Pacific | 0 | <1 | <1 | 0 | 0 | <1 | 0 | 0 | <1 | 0 |
| Islander | ||||||||||
| Two or more | unknown | 4.0 | 7.5 | unknown | 1.5 | 8.4 | unknown | 0 | 16.0 | 0 |
| Males (%) | 25.0 | 27.4 | 51.2 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 51.0 | 40.0 | 29.2 | 50.5 | 0 |
| Low income | n/a | n/a | 45.2 | n/a | n/a | 64.0 | n/a | n/a | 56.0 | n/a |
| Students with IEPs | n/a | n/a | 16.0 | n/a | n/a | 16.0 | n/a | n/a | 15.0 | n/a |
| ESL/BL | n/a | n/a | 20.3 | n/a | n/a | 16.0 | n/a | n/a | 7.0 | n/a |
| Riverfront school district (urban) | Town 1 district | Town 2 district | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All participants | Teachers | Students | LEAP | Teachers | Students | LEAP | Teachers | Students | LEAP | |
| 28a | 16,421 | 27,173 | 20a | 445 | 6,664 | 5a | 268 | 3,339 | 1a | |
| (89.7) | (90) | (100) | (0) | |||||||
| Race, Ethnicity (%)b | ||||||||||
| White | 44.8 | 86.3 | 26.1 | 45.0 | 88.2 | 34.0 | 20.0 | 87.2 | 43.1 | 100 |
| Black | 34.5 | 3.1 | 30.8 | 35.0 | 2.5 | 27.8 | 60.0 | 6.9 | 25.8 | 0 |
| Hispanic | 17.2 | 4.7 | 31.4 | 15.0 | 7.2 | 30.3 | 20.0 | 2.3 | 14.0 | 0 |
| Asian | 3.5 | 1.5 | 4.0 | 5.0 | <1 | 1.1 | 0 | 3.5 | 1 | 0 |
| Indigenous | 0 | <1 | <1 | 0 | <1 | <1 | 0 | 0 | <1 | 0 |
| Pacific | 0 | <1 | <1 | 0 | 0 | <1 | 0 | 0 | <1 | 0 |
| Islander | ||||||||||
| Two or more | unknown | 4.0 | 7.5 | unknown | 1.5 | 8.4 | unknown | 0 | 16.0 | 0 |
| Males (%) | 25.0 | 27.4 | 51.2 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 51.0 | 40.0 | 29.2 | 50.5 | 0 |
| Low income | n/a | n/a | 45.2 | n/a | n/a | 64.0 | n/a | n/a | 56.0 | n/a |
| Students with IEPs | n/a | n/a | 16.0 | n/a | n/a | 16.0 | n/a | n/a | 15.0 | n/a |
| ESL/BL | n/a | n/a | 20.3 | n/a | n/a | 16.0 | n/a | n/a | 7.0 | n/a |
Note(s): LEAP = Licensed Educator Accelerated Pathway; IEP = individualized education program; ESL/BL = English as a second language/bilingual and n/a = not applicable. Other participants not included in Table 1 were White females (n = 2) from a special education cooperative serving students with disabilities (100% completion rate) in rural communities. aLEAP participants who began the program. Two participants from Riverfront School District and one from Town 2 withdrew or were dismissed from LEAP (n = 3 non-completers) for an overall completion rate of 89.3%. bDistrict demographic and other data are from the Illinois Report Card (2022). Demographic data not available for students or teachers in the special education cooperative
Source(s): Table created by authors
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