State Education Indicators with a Focus on Title I

Sources

School and Teacher Demographics

Expenditures per pupil

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 1998-99 Current expenditures per pupil as reported by school districts

Note: Current expenditures include salaries, employee benefits, purchased services, and supplies, but exclude capital outlay, debt service, facilities acquistion and construction, and equipment.

Number of districts

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 1999-2000

Notes: All local school districts are included in these counts. Separate supervisory unions, regional education services agencies, and state-operated institutions are excluded.

Number of Charter Schools

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 1999-2000

Notes: All state-defined charter schools are included in these counts.

Number of public schools in state

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 1999-2000

Notes: School counts based on NCES definitions in Digest of Education Statistics. Schools are broken into five categories: Elementary, Middle, High, Combined, and Other. A school is classified as combined if it provides instruction at both the elementary (grade 6 or below) and the secondary (grade 9 or above) levels.

Number of FTE Teachers in state

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 1999-2000

Notes: Teacher counts based on NCES definitions in Digest of Education Statistics. Schools are broken into five categories: Elementary, Middle, High, Combined, and Other. A school is classified as combined if it provides instruction at both the elementary (grade 6 or below) and the secondary (grade 9 or above) levels.

Public school enrollment

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 1993-1994 and 1999-2000

Notes: These numbers do not include ungraded students. Public Preschool Enrollment is recorded according to state definition of public preschools and state decision on data collection.

Sources of funding

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data,
National Public Education Financial Survey, 1998-1999 school year

Notes: Information is shown for three major revenue sources: Federal, State, and Local. A fourth category, Intermediate, is shown only for those states which have funds in this category.

Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity of K-12 students

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, State Summaries of Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Survey and the National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 1993-1994, 1999-2000

Students with disabilities (K-12)

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, 2000

U.S. Department of Education. To Assure the Free Appropriate Public Education of All children with Disabilities. Seventeenth Annual Report to congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with disabilities Education Act, 1995.

Notes: The figures shown represent the percentage of children ages 6 to 17 served under IDEA, Part B.

Limited English Proficient (K-12)

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, 1993-1994, 1999-2000

Notes: The number of LEP students enrolled in public schools

Migrant (K-12)

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Migrant Education, with state edits and by state definition for 1999-2000 school year, 1993-1994, 1999-2000

Notes: The criterion for migrant status was reduced from six to three years in 1994. Data will only be tracked from that point forward. The figures shown represent the "12-month" count of students identified for the Migrant program. The 12-month count is the unduplicated number of eligible children ages 3-21 who, within three years of making a qualifying move, resided in the state for one or more days during the reporting period.

All schools by percent of students eligible for the Free Lunch Program

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 1999-2000

Notes: The figures shown represent the percentage of students eligible to participate in the Free Lunch Program under the National School Lunch Act. This does not include those eligible only for reduced-price lunch.

Statewide Accountability Information

Source: Results from an unpublished 50 State - Survey conducted by CCSSO January 2002. Rolf Blank et al.

Title I Schools

Source: Sinclair, B. State ESEA Title I Participation Information for 1999-2000: Final Summary report. (Rockville, MD: Westat). Report prepared for the Office of the Under Secretary and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. July, 2002

NAEP state results

NAEP 2000 Mathematics Report Card for the Nation and the States. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2001

Donohue, P.L., Voelkl, K.E., Campbell, J.R., and Mazzeo, J.; NAEP 1998 Reading Report Card for the Nation and the States. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1999

Notes: Data reported for public schools only. Some states did not satisfy one of the guidelines for school sample participation rates. See Appendix C for further information and definitions of proficient and basic.

Student Achievement

Student Achievement

Source: State Departments of Education, assessment results for 1999-2000 school year, reported in Consolidated Performance Report, Section B, U.S. Department of Education

Notes: Trend results for 1995-96 through 1999-2000 reported in bar graphs for states with consistent tests over two or more years.

High school drop-out rate (annual)

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, 1993-94, 1997-98

Notes: Only states whose definitions complied with NCES's definition were included. Annual or "event" rate is the percentage of 9-12 students dropping out during one school year. (1998-99 most recent year available.)

Postsecondary enrollment

Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Residence and Migration of First-Time Freshmen Enrolled in Higher Education Institutions, Fall 1994 and Fall 1996; Common Core of Data; and Private School Universe Survey

Notes: 1998-99 most recent year available

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