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To examine these issues, a social capital model was developed and tested to examine how personal characteristics (i.e., gender, race/ethnicity, grade, crowd membership, and information communication technology use - ICT) and institutional policies, such as school-based academic tracking based on disability status, influence the social networks of adolescents with and without disabilities and their formal and informal social network activities. Ego network data were gathered on adolescents with and without disabilities in two high schools across academic tracks adopted by the schools (i.e., general education, co-taught, special education classrooms). Differences in ego network structural characteristics (i.e., network size, density, effective size, and efficiency) across academics tracks and the influence of personal characteristics on ego networks and social activity were examined. 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