This report is based on a randomly selected and stratified sample of 208 United States Catholic high schools. The sample was stratified by governance (diocesan, parochial/interparochial, and private); five categories of enrollment; and six regions. Data are compared with an earlier study, "The Catholic High School: A National Portrait" and show…

High School and Beyond is a national longitudinal study of the cohorts of 1980 high school seniors and sophomores in the United States. The School File, a machine-readable data file (MRDF) contains questionnaire response data provided by administrators from 988 public, Catholic, and private schools. The file focuses on a number of school…

The present study is concerned with the smaller secondary schools, those schools which in the main afford the opportunities for secondary education to the children of the smaller centers of population and rural areas. In order to make the picture as complete as possible, the study has included high schools with enrollments ranging from fewer than…

This document contains the four concluding chapters and index of the Biennial Survey of Education, covering the years 1928-1930. Chapter 4, Statistics of universities, colleges, and professional schools, 1929-30, is made up of three parts: (1) Personnel, receipts, and property (Emery M. Foster and Frederick J. Kelley); (2) Expenditures (Henry G.…

This report includes data on: 23,213 public high schools in the continental United States and on 164 high schools in the outlying parts of the United States. The material was scoured from information blanks sent directly to the principals of the various high schools and returned by them. In some cases where replies were not received from the…

Statistics of public high schools for 1920, contained in this bulletin, include statistics of secondary schools which are controlled by publicly elected or appointed boards of education. Contents include: (1) Preliminary survey; (2) Summary of statistics of public high schools from 1890-1920 (Table 1); (3) Summary of statistics of public high…

This bulletin presents statistics of public high schools from 1937-38. This bulletin contains the following sections: (1) A 99-percent record; (2) Character of the tables; (3) Size of school; (4) Reorganization; (5) 11-year and 12-year systems; (6) Retention in school; (7) Graduates; (8) Professional staff; (9) Equipment; (10) Small schools and…

The statistical survey presented in this bulletin includes a general summary of statistics, showing the enrollment in public and private schools and institutions of various types, the estimated expenditures for those schools in 1919-20, the distribution of teachers among those schools, and certain combined statistics of public and private high…

The U.S. Office of Education is required by law to collect statistics to show the condition and progress of education. Statistics can be made available, on a national scale, to the extent that school administrators, principals, and college officials cooperate on a voluntary basis with the Office of Education in making the facts available. This…