Formerly published in "Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Systems," the information presented here on the 20 largest cities (by population size) comes from the 27th annual survey of public schools, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. Data are presented in eight tables and three graphs, covering number of…

This data handbook presents enrollment statistics for public high school graduates for selected years between 1969 and 1987. The data used to generate these statistics were taken from students' high school transcripts. Four data sets were used to generate the statistics in this time series report: the National Assessment of Educational Progress…

This edition of the stastical tables is a compilation of general information about Rhode Island public school districts in the areas of enrollment, staffing, and finances. Most of the information is broad in scope and designed to present the general characteristics of each school district. Data are grouped as follows: (1) nine tables of student…

This report includes early tabulations from the 1985 Public School Survey of schools and teachers. The tabulations and figures are prefaced by a description of the survey methodology, indicating what the limitations are on the data and briefly describing sampling variation. The mail sample survey collected information on a nationally…

This report provides statistics on employment, evaluation, and training practices and procedures of American public school substitute teachers. A questionnaire was mailed to the directors of substitute teachers in 401 randomly selected school districts. Usable information was returned by 259 school systems (64.6 percent) in 49 states and the…

This report provides educators and the general public with statistics about education in Connecticut's 165 public school districts during 1983-84. Statistical summaries for each town describe community characteristics, superintendent's office information, enrollment of pupils overall and by major sub-group, proficiency test results, program…

This 1979 report presents updated cost and enrollment statistics for Catholic elementary schools, along with brief explanations of the data. Twelve tables give figures on the following: (1) enrollment (Catholic and public schools), (2) school size, (3) projections of school age populations through 1986, (4) operating costs, (5) per pupil costs…

Until recently there had been no systematic effort to gather comparable data from public and private schools. However, for the years 1976-77 through 1978-79, with the cooperation of the National Catholic Education Association and the Council for American Private Education, the National Center for Education Statistics surveyed all known private…

This report looks at student retention in Texas over a 4-year period, beginning with the 1993-94 school year. Grade-level retention is typically defined as having a student repeat an unsuccessful grade or holding back a child not developmentally ready to enter school. The information is analyzed by grade, ethnicity, and gender, as well as other…

This bulletin includes the Preface to the biennial survey covering State school systems' statistics. The Preface presents a summary that brings together data from the various statistical chapters of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1930-32, each of which deals with a segment only of the educational system. (Contains 8 tables, and 1 footnote.)…

A pull-out desk reference of key school statistics, this 11th annual edition provides key indicators of school performance and progress in areas such as test scores and educational technology, school construction and school bond issues, demographic profiles of school board members and school administrators, and education indicators by region and…

School board members and administrators are charged with educating a student body that is more diverse than any generation before them. However, top leadership positions remain mostly white and mostly male. Charts display the race and gender of administrators and board members by size of school district. (MLF)

This publication, part of a continuing series, provides information on teachers and other school personnel with certification in the Colorado public school system. The fall 1994 average salary for the state's 34,894 public school teachers was $34,571, representing a 2.2% increase over the fall 1993 figure. In the same period, the national average…

As part of an effort to improve Springfield (Massachusetts) public schools, School Centered Decision Making Teams (SCDMT) have been created at each school. To help the SCDMTs produce more meaningful and useful School Improvement Plans (SIPs), the school system has been working to produce a profile for each school. The availability of profiles was…

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data related to education in the United States and other nations. The center's activities are designed to address high-priority education data needs; provide consistent, reliable, complete, and accurate indicators of education…