Based on published statistics and on information collected by Quality Education Data (QED) during telephone calls to every United States school district in 1981-82, 1982-83, and 1983-84 (including all intermediate units and subdistricts of large school districts), this publication presents in tabular form information on the size of the…

Compiled from information gathered through questionnaires and other sources, this handbook documents educational practices conducted in the 55 counties of West Virginia. The data contained in this guide were collected in the spring of 1990. The text is divided into two parts: county profiles and high school descriptions. The high school…

Questionnaires were sent to the Ministries of Education in 69 countries to obtain information about one-teacher school systems in each respective country. The questionnaire was constructed to provide information about administration, length of schooling in one-teacher schools, organization of school work, curricula and methods, teaching staff,…

This 1969-70 directory of public elementary and secondary schools provides the names of and basic information on local school systems in the United States and its possessions. In this directory, the listing includes all systems regardless of size, as well as nonoperating public school districts. The main body of the directory lists, in…

This report contains the National Education Association (NEA) evaluation of nationwide teacher salary schedules for a 3-year time period. A total of 1,172 schedules for 1968-69 from school systems with enrollments of 6,000 or more were evaluated. Comparable evaluations were included for 967 and 925 of these systems for the academic years 1967-68…

This handbook presents statistical procedures that will assist State and local school officials in making longrange projections for a decade or more. The author suggests several seemingly appropriate procedures but leaves it to the State and local officials to select the procedures that appear most suitable for their specific local conditions.…

This publication provides a detailed look at public education in Texas for the 2000-2001 school year. It provides readers with the basic information needed to examine differences in size, wealth, ethnic composition, and academic achievement and to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of public school districts in Texas. This Snapshot…

This publication provides a detailed look at public education in Texas for the 1999-2000 school year. It provides readers with the basic information needed to examine differences in size, wealth, ethnic composition, and academic achievement and to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of public school districts in Texas. The…

This publication provides a detailed look at public education in Texas for the 1998-1999 school year. It provides the basic information needed to examine the differences among school districts and to assess their relative strengths and weaknesses. "Snapshot '99" begins with an overview of education at the state level, followed by the…

This publication presents information on school statistics for South Dakota and its 176 school districts. Just over half (50.9%) of the state's schools have 1 to 100 students, and only 6.7% enroll more than 500 students. The 1997-98 state enrollment of 132,024 represents a decline from the enrollment of 134,052 in 1995-96. State summary…

This publication provides a detailed look at public education in Texas for the 1997-98 school year. Published annually since 1987-88, "Snapshot" presents a broad range of information about the state's 3,891,988 students, its teachers, and its schools. It begins with a statistical overview of education at the state level. This overview…

Computer-aided facilities management is a software program consisting of a relational database of facility information--such as occupancy, usage, student counts, etc.--attached to or merged with computerized floor plans. This program can integrate data with drawings, thereby allowing the development of "what if" scenarios. (MLF)

Membership projections, which are calculated using average daily membership in conjunction with cohort survival procedure, are produced annually in South Carolina to give insight into trends within the state and individual school districts. By the 1998-99 school year, average daily membership for kindergarten through grade 12 in South Carolina…

This study presents a means of identifying economically efficient school districts in Illinois and provides an analysis of select school variables: school population; salary expenditure; level of teacher preparedness; number of years of teaching experience; and select ratios incorporating pupils, administrators, teachers, test scores, and percent…

School finance is basic to understanding and improving the condition of rural education. Information necessary for financial planning and policy development at the state and local levels is stored in large computer readable data bases and needs to be accessed. Pertinent data elements need to be extracted from the data base and relationships among…