Definition: Number of public school students receiving special education services per 1,000 students, by primary disability type (e.g., in 2020, 20.3 per 1,000 California students were enrolled in special education for autism).
Data Source: California Dept. of Education, DataQuest & Special Education Division custom tabulation; National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics (Jun. 2021).
Footnote: Years presented are the final year of a school year (e.g., 2019-20 is shown as 2020). California data include children and youth ages 0-22, whereas data for the U.S. include those ages 3-21. Disability types reflect primary disability categories as defined here. Some rates for deaf-blindness and established medical disability have been rounded to 0.0 and should not be interpreted as no cases reported. The notation S refers to rates that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 280 total students with special education disabilities, and to numbers that have been suppressed because there were between 1 and 10 students in that group or to protect confidentiality. N/A means that data are not available or that the rate was far above average for that year (more than 3 standard deviations above the mean).
