Number of Spellers | Age Range | Grade Range | School Type | Siblings | Family Ties
Coaching | Four-Year Repeaters | Three-Year Repeaters | Two-Year Repeaters
Number of Spellers: 275
| 138 boys (50.2%) | 137 girls (49.8%) |
Age Range
| 1 eight-year-old (.4%) | 57 twelve-year-olds (20.7%) |
| 2 nine-year-old (.7%) | 95 thirteen-year-olds (34.6%) |
| 13 ten-year-olds (4.7%) | 74 fourteen-year-olds (26.9%)
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| 31 eleven-year-olds (11.3%) | 2 fifteen-year-old (.7%) |
This year's age statistics are typical of previous years' age statistics.
Grade Range
| 1 third grader (.4%) | 37 sixth graders (13.5%) |
| 6 fourth graders (2.1%) | 89 seventh graders (32.4%) |
| 25 fifth graders (9.1%) | 117 eighth graders (42.5%) |
This year's grade statistics are typical of previous years' grade statistics.
School Type
| 179 public (65.1%) | 16 parochial (5.8%) |
| 43 private (15.6%) | 10 charter (3.6%)
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| 27 home (9.8%) | |
This year's school statistics are typical of previous years' school statistics.
Siblings
Fifty-three (53) spellers are only children. The remaining 221 spellers have 148 sisters and 128 brothers among them. Six spellers have a fraternal twin and one has an identical twin.
This year's siblings statistics are typical of previous years' siblings statistics.
Family Ties
Twenty-four (24) spellers have at least one relative (brother, sister, uncle, cousin or mother) who has competed in previous national finals. They are spellers 9, 24, 31, 39, 53, 55, 80, 115, 116, 121, 124, 140, 142, 155, 157, 184, 190, 196, 222, 228, 241, 246, 264 and 268.
This year's family ties statistics are typical of previous years' family ties statistics.
Coaching
- Spellers with only family and/or friends as coaches: 230
- Spellers with teachers as coaches: 33
- Spellers who primarily study alone: 1
- Spellers not responding: 13
- Of the 33 spellers who named teachers as coaches, all indicated that they received coaching assistance from within their families as well.
- Among the 71 spellers returning for the second, third or fourth time, only 12 cited coaches outside the sphere of family and friends. Four repeaters did not respond and the remaining 55 only received coaching from their families and friends.
- Two 2010 championship finalists are among this year's spellers: Speller 24, who credits her mother with helping her study, and speller 206, who generally studies alone until it is time to prepare orally, which she does with her parents.
Four-Year Repeaters (3)
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Three-Year Repeaters (17)
Two-Year Repeaters (51)