The reclassification rate of California English Learners is recovering from a dramatic pandemic dip

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NOTES: To calculate the numerator of the reclassification rate, we aggregate all newly reclassified students in all grades in each year (e.g., in 2017, ~19,500 students in 2nd grade were reclassified; in 2016, when those students were in 1st grade, only 2,000 had been reclassified; thus ~17,500 were newly reclassified 2nd graders). We repeat this process for all grades and aggregate to get the total newly reclassified students in a year. The denominator is total English learners aggregated across all grades. As 2015 is the first year we have reclassified counts by grade, we calculate only from 2016 onwards. Our method cannot account for students moving away from the state nor entering the state between grades.