The provided chart illustrates the portion of children who were homeschooled in Some Country from 1999 to 2004. The statistics are categorized into six based on the grade level of education.
Overall, when comparing the beginning of the period to the last period, it is evident that all the grades had a growth rate in the portion of homeschooled children. While kindergarten was the level of education that experienced the greatest percentage growth of home-educated children, grade 1-2 and grade 5-6 always had the lowest percentage rise.
In 1999, grades 1-2 and 5-6 had the same proportion of home-taught children (1.5%), while it was 1.6% for grades 3-4 and 7-8. As for kindergarten, the portion for students who were educated at home totalled 2.4%, exceeding other grades’. In the next year, the portion of homeschooled children rose to 2.5% for kindergarten and to 1.7% for grade 3-4; however, that percentage for grade 1-2 and grade 5-6 each decreased by 0.3% and 0.2%. Also, the portion for grade 7-8 stabilized. In the next year growth of 0.1% for kindergarten, grade 1-2, grade 3-4 and grade 5-6 had occurred, respectively; also, for the remaining grades, there were no change.
Furthermore, except for kindergarten, other grades experienced a continuous growth rate from 2001 to 2004. 2.7% accounted for the stable point from 2002 to 2003 before reaching 2.9% in 2009.