The special education classification rate is highest for Black and American Indian students. Asian students are very significantly underrepresented compared with all other groups.

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Multiple values by 100 to obtain percent values

	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Statewide Average
Classification Rate	0.117	0.151	0.137	0.047	0.166	0.123
N:	214,661	94,263	85,300	2,469	10,307	407,000

Statewide Classification Rates of Students with Disabilities by Race/Ethnicity 2005. For example, this shows 15.1% of Black students are classified in special education, etc.