Annual Report 2006-07 | Page 17

2. Student Attrition Rate during the Year Reported This rate does not apply to Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School. 3. Student Re-Enrollment More than half of students eligible for re-enrollment did so in fall 2006. The school maintained its minimum enrollment of 1,150 students throughout the school year. Demand for classes remained constant. Because new student applicants outnumbered spaces available for classes, the school held enrollment lotteries and established waiting lists of over 500 students for day, afternoon, and evening sessions. Of the students enrolled in ESL classes, the majority were in Literacy A and B as well as in Levels 1 and 2. 4. Demographics During the 2006-2007 academic year, Carlos Rosario offered more than 2,000 immigrant students an array of programs and supportive services. These learners comprised an ethnically, geographically, and linguistically diverse student body, with students coming from as many as 78 countries and speaking some 39 different languages. Their native countries included Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Sudan, Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, Vietnam, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Yemen, Turkey, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. TABLE 4 offers a demographic breakdown. TABLE 4 Ethnicity Ethnicity Asian/Pacific Islander PERCENTAGE 5.04 % Black 17.62 % Hispanic 74.64 % Caucasian (non-Hispanic) 1.56 % Other 1.14 % In addition, the breakdown of females and of males was as follows: 54.83% females, 45.17 % males. Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School, Annual Report SY 2006-2007 -16-