September 2008
See also Leading Education Indicators: Trends in Education
| 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | Percent Change | |
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| Demographicsa | |||||
| Total Enrollment | 41.2 million | 44.8 million | 47.2 million | 49.1 million | +19% |
| Minority enrollment | 15.9 million | 15.8 million | 18.4 million | 21.4 million | +35% |
| Black enrollment | 5.9 million | 7.5 million | 8.1 million | 8.4 million | +41% |
| Hispanic enrollment | 4.7 million | 6.0 million | 7.7 million | 9.6 million | +106% |
| Students living in povertyb | 8.5 million | 9.3 million | 7.6 million | 8.6 million | +2% |
| Students with limited English proficiency | data not available | data not available | 3.5 million | 4.2 million | +22% |
| Students with disabilities | 3.3 million | 4.5 million | 6.0 million | 6.7 million | +104% |
| Resources | |||||
| Total spending on public K-12 education (2006-07 dollars)c | $349.7 billion | $388.0 billion | $479.0 billion | $537.6 billion | +54% |
| Per student spending on public education (2006-07 dollars adjusted for inflation )d | $8,363 | $8,513 | $9,997 | $10,725 | +28% |
| Global Landscape | |||||
| OECD average bachelor's degree attainment | data not available | data not available | +17% | +24% | +41% |
aU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, except for data on students living in poverty.
bU.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economics Statistics Division, Current Population Survey, Historical Poverty Tables, Table 3: Poverty Status, by Age, Race and Hispanic Origin: 1959-2007.
cU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics (2007), Table 26: Expenditures of educational institutions, by level and control of institution: Selected years, 1899–1900 through 2006–07.
dU.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics (2007), Table 171: Total and current expenditures per pupil in public elementary and secondary schools: Selected years, 1919-20 through 2004-05.
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