The phrase "a fraction of students" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small part or portion of the total number of students in a particular context.
Example: "A fraction of students participated in the survey, indicating a lack of interest in the topic."
Alternatives: "a portion of students" or "a segment of students".
Only a fraction of students can perform at expected levels.
Only a fraction of students from each class historically remain at their initial employers in the four years after graduation.
In Chattanooga, Tenn., the schools have abolished their multitrack curriculum, which pointed only a fraction of students toward college.
At Tufts, Coffin said the university gradually will start phasing out any mention of rank in its marketing materials because just a fraction of students are ranked.
Climate change tends to be discussed in electives – hence reaching only a fraction of students – and tends to be treated alongside a myriad of other corporate social responsibility issues.
WHILE dozens of high schools in Westchester County posted near-perfect achievement scores based on Regents diploma data, several others lag far behind with only a fraction of students meeting standards, according to figures released by the state's Education Department on Wednesday.
Only a fraction of college students in the studies fully understood the mechanisms of diffusion and osmosis, reaffirming our initial claim that student mastery of those concepts is difficult to achieve.
Only a fraction of his students favor expanding gay rights, Professor Wardle says, but all of them want to learn more.
Even so, federal and state officials said that summertime free-meal programs have historically reached only a fraction of poor students because of a shortage of sponsors and a lack of transportation and public awareness.
The plaintiffs whose school desegregation lawsuit against Connecticut 15 years ago resulted in a $245 million plan to shift white, suburban students to Hartford's overwhelmingly minority schools and minority students in the opposite direction filed court papers on Tuesday charging the state is woefully behind schedule and has served only a fraction of the students it agreed to help.
