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Digest of Education Statistics
1999 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Issue of the Digest

Table 1  Estimated number of participants in elementary and secondary education and in higher education: Fall 1999 [In millions]

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                        | All levels |Elementary and secondary schools|Colleges and universities
                        |(elementary,|________________________________|_________________________
      Participants      | secondary, |          |           |         |        |       |
                        | and higher |  Total   |  Public   | Private |Total   |Public |Private
                        | education) |          |           |         |        |       |
________________________|____________|__________|___________|_________|________|_______|________
           1            |     2      |    3     |     4     |    5    |   6    |   7   |   8
________________________|____________|__________|___________|_________|________|_______|________
    Total ..............|       76.1 |     59.0 |      52.4 |     6.6 |   17.1 |  13.1 |    4.0
                        |____________|__________|___________|_________|________|_______|________
Enrollment\1\ ..........|       68.1 |     53.2 |      47.2 |     6.0 |   14.9 |  11.6 |    3.3
Teachers and faculty ...|        3.8 |      3.1 |       2.7 |     0.4 |    0.7 |   0.5 |    0.2
Other professional,     |            |          |           |         |        |       |
  administrative, and   |            |          |           |         |        |       |
  support staff ........|        4.2 |      2.7 |       2.5 |     0.2 |    1.5 |   1.0 |    0.5
________________________|____________|__________|___________|_________|________|_______|________

\1\Includes enrollments in local public school systems and in most private schools (religiously affiliated and nonsectarian). Excludes subcollegiate departments of institutions of higher education, residential schools for exceptional children, and federal schools. Elementary and secondary includes most kindergarten and some nursery school enrollment. Excludes preprimary enrollment in schools that do not offer first grade or above. Higher education comprises full-time and part-time students enrolled in degree-credit and nondegree-credit programs in universities, other 4-year colleges, and 2-year colleges. NOTE.
--The enrollment figures include all students in elementary and secondary schools and colleges and universities. However, the data for teachers and other staff in public and private elementary and secondary schools and colleges and universities are reported in terms of full-time equivalents. Because of rounding, details may not add to totals.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, unpublished projections and estimates. (This table was prepared August 1999.)


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