The table below describes percentages of home schooled students in Some Country in 1999-2004.

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The table below describes percentages of home schooled students in Some Country in 1999-2004.

The table elucidates the percentages of students with five different grades from kindergarten level to 7-8 grades who have done homes schooling in some country for the period between 1999 and 2004.

Overall, regardless of the student’s grades, the percentage of home schooling is increased within given periods. The proportion of students who had done the education at home was below 3% for the projected periods. The highest percentages in home schooled students were the kindergarten whereas the lowest portion in home schooling was the grade 1-2 level students.

During the projected periods, kindergarten showed a steady increase by 0.1% to reach at 2.9% by 2004 except for 2002 and 2003; where the percentage was the same at 2.7%. Meanwhile, the 5-6 graders show a slight decrease from 1.5% in 1999 to 1.3% in 2000, the highest graders remained unchanged of 1.6% for during the first three years of the periods. From 2002, both groups picked up their incremental rates to reach at 2.6% for 5-6 graders and 2.5% for 7-8 graders by 2004.

Whilst the 1-2 graders fluctuated for the beginning of 4 years of the projected periods (1.5%, 1.2%, 1.3% and 1.5% for 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, respectively), the 3-4 graders show a steady rise by 0.1% to reach at 2.2% by 2004.

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Sentence: Meanwhile, the 5-6 graders show a slight decrease from 1.5 in 1999 to 1.3 in 2000, the highest graders remained unchanged of 1.6 for during the first three years of the periods.
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need more comparisons in a big picture, for example, grade 1-2 and grade 5-6 have the same feature; grade 3-4 and kindergarten have the same feature;

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