Teachers include all school personnel categorized by the district as classroom teachers. Teacher information includes classroom teachers plus teachers specializing in art, physical education, music, etc. Salaries and counts of staff are summed across a district based on percentage of time that each individual is employed as an administrator or a teacher. These averages allow for comparisons among districts. They may or may not reflect actual paid salaries for the district.
Instruction has a very narrow and restrictive definition.
All the above financial indicators were divided by the 9-month average Daily Attendance to derive the per pupil figures. When interpreting the achievement data of smaller schools or districts, please note that the performance of a small number of students can substantially affect a school's achievement data. Thus changes from one year to the next may be due to changes in the performance of a small group of students. The graduation rate is calculated by comparing the number of 1999-00 graduates with the number of students enrolled in ninth grade in the fall of 1996. Adjustments have been made for students who transferred into and out of school in the last four years.