2000-2001 Exemption and Absent Percentages for End
of Grade and End of Course Tests For the State of
North Carolina*
Subject
Exempt
Reading Grades 3-8 and 10
Math Grades 3-8 and 10
Algebra I
Algebra II
Biology
Chemistry
Economic, Legal, and Political
Systems
English I
Geometry
Physical Science
Physics
U.S. History
Total – Grades 3-8 Reading
and Math, Grade 10 Reading
and Math, 10 End of Course
Subjects
1.06
1.05
0.28
0.09
0.31
0.04
0.41
Percent
Absent Exempt or
Absent
0.68
1.73
0.73
1.78
1.81
2.09
1.53
1.62
1.79
2.10
0.95
0.99
1.96
2.37
7,492
7,422
267
50
263
19
379
N-Counts
Absent
Exempt or
Absent
4,819
12,311
5,202
12,624
1,728
1,995
857
907
1,497
1,760
419
438
1,816
2,195
Total Counts
Used for all
categories
710,134
710,125
95,672
55,832
83,801
44,126
92,617
0.77
0.08
0.40
0.04
0.17
2.51
1.49
2.54
0.76
1.53
3.28
1.57
2.95
.80
1.69
750
52
163
4
125
2,459
999
1,026
84
1,144
3,209
1,051
1,189
88
1,269
97,820
66,866
40,337
11,063
74,881
0.82
1.06
1.87
16,986
22,050
39,036
2,083,274
Data calculated from 2000-2001 Masterbuild files.
Exemption and Absent counts were calculated using reason codes in the masterbuild file (A for absent, B
for exemption first year Limited English Proficiency, C for exemption second year Limited English
Proficiency).
*Based on No Child Left Behind Act. No exemptions will be allowed starting with the 2002-2003
school year.
NCDPI/Accountability/Reporting/jlw/May 16, 2002/DRAFT
Exempt