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Date:         Sat, 12 Sep 1992 16:23:00 CDT
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Subject:      OERI: Public schools & agencies (117 lines)

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                  U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
         OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT
            NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS

      PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND AGENCIES
            IN THE UNITED STATES AND OUTLYING AREAS:
                       SCHOOL YEAR 1990-91

This report is based on information from the 1990-91 "Public
Elementary and Secondary School Universe" and the "Public
Elementary and Secondary Education Agency Universe" surveys of
education in the United States.  These data represent two of the
surveys from the Common Core of Data (CCD) collected annually by
the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education
Statistics (NCES).  The tables in this report summarize
statistical information for each school and education agency as
supplied to NCES by state education agency officials.

Highlights

o    The 84,538 public schools reported for 1990-91 represent an
     increase of 1.3 percent over the 83,425 public schools
     reported for the previous school year.  Among the 1990-91
     schools, 80,395 (95.1%) were regular schools while 4,143
     (5.0%) offered primarily special education, vocational
     education or some other alternative program.

o    The average student body size of public schools was 509
     pupils in 1990-91 (compared to 504 in 1989-90).  Students in
     1990-91 were most likely to be educated in schools with a
     membership of 300 to 749 pupils, but 0.9 percent of the
     students were served by schools of fewer than 100 students
     and 10.0 percent were served in schools with 1,500 or more
     students.  Average school size differed by grade range: 430
     students for primary schools; 560 students in middle
     schools; and 700 students in high schools.

o    The total of 41,223,804 public school students reported for
     1990-91 is 1.7 percent greater than the 40,526,372 in
     membership in 1989-90.  In 1990-91, 56.5 percent of the
     students were enrolled in prekindergarten through grade 6,
     22.3 percent were in grades 7 through 9, 19.3 percent in
     grades 10 through 12, and 1.9 percent were in ungraded
     settings.

o    The median pupil-teacher ratio in 1990-91 was 18.2 students
     for every teacher in primary grades.  For middle schools the
     ratio was 17.0; and 15.1 for high schools.

o    The number of regular school districts changed from 15,367
     in 1989-90 to 15,358 in 1990-91.  Although only 1.2 percent
     of the districts were in the largest size ranges (membership
     of 25,000 or more), these districts served some 29.1 percent
     of the nation's public school students.  The average school
     district enrolled 2,688 students.

For information about the report PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY
SCHOOLS AND AGENCIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND OUTLYING AREAS:
SCHOOL YEAR 1990-91 please contact Lena McDowell on 202-219-1628.

Copies of the report are available from the U.S. Department of
Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Dept.
EIB, 555 New Jersey Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C.  20208-5641.
Please refer to NCES 92-031.


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