Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States, 1992-93

Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States, 1992-93
Author: John P. Sietsema
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Total Pages: 68
Release: 1995
Genre: School districts
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This publication provides basic descriptive information about the 100 largest school districts in the United States and its outlying areas. The information was provided by state education agencies about student membership, revenues, and expenditures. The 100 largest districts, representing fewer than 1% of the nation's school districts, serve about 23% of public school students and employ about 23% of public school teachers. Almost all of these districts encompass large cities, but only about half are confined to city limits. One-third of these districts are found in Florida, Texas, and California; and more than half of these large districts have minority enrollment of over 50%. In addition, schools in the 100 largest districts tend to be about 38% larger than the average American school. Information on school and student characteristics and school finances is presented in 10 basic tables. Three text tables establish a meaningful context for the information on the 100 school districts. Appendixes list the 500 largest school districts, and an alphabetical list of the 500 districts. (SLD)

Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States, 1993-94

Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States, 1993-94
Author: Jonaki Bose
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 60
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
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This publication provides basic descriptive information about the 100 largest school districts in the United States and its outlying areas. Almost one in every four public school students in the country is served by one of these districts. They are distinguished from smaller districts by characteristics other than sheer size, such as average and median school size, pupil-teacher ratios, numbers of high school graduates, numbers of students receiving special education services, and minority enrollment as a proportion of total enrollment. The 100 largest districts employ 19.9% of the nation's public school teachers and account for 16.6% of the nation's schools and 19.2% of its high school graduates. Almost all of these districts encompass large cities, but only about half are confined to the city limits. Three states, Florida, Texas, and California, accounted for over one-third of these districts. More than half of these districts have over 50% minority enrollment. Current expenditures per pupil in the 100 largest school districts ranged from a low of $2,052 in the Puerto Rican Department of Education to a high of $9,501 in Newark, New Jersey Public Schools. This information is found in 10 basic tables, which are preceded by 3 text tables that establish the context for the information on the 100 largest districts. Appendixes list the largest districts, provide some identifying information, and list the districts alphabetically. (SLD)

Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States

Characteristics of the 100 Largest Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts in the United States
Author: Jennifer Sable
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Total Pages: 83
Release: 2010
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This report describes the characteristics of the 100 largest public elementary and secondary school districts in the United States and its jurisdictions. These districts are defined as the 100 largest according to the size of their student population. The information in this report was provided by state education agency officials to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for inclusion in the Common Core of Data (CCD). The report uses data from the 2008-09 school year and includes student membership and staff in public schools and school districts in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Bureau of Indian Education, the Department of Defense dependents schools (overseas and domestic), and the four outlying areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). This report also includes graduate counts, high school dropout rates, and graduation rates for the 2007-08 school year and revenues and expenditures for fiscal year (FY) 2008. Highlights of the report include the following: (1) The 100 largest public school districts, representing less than 1 percent of all school districts in the United States and jurisdictions, were responsible for the education of 22 percent of all public school students (table 1); (2) The 100 largest public school districts employed 22 percent of the United States and jurisdictions' public school full-time-equivalent (FTE) teaching positions and contained 17 percent of all public schools and 20 percent of 2007-08 school year public high school completers (table 1); (3) The 100 largest public school districts had larger average school enrollments compared to the average for all school districts (673 vs. 514) as well as a higher median pupil/teacher ratio (15.3 vs. 15.0) (table 1); (4) The majority of students in the 100 largest school districts were Hispanic or Black (63 percent) (table 2). The percentage of students in the 100 largest school district was 26 percent, compared to 17 percent of students in all school districts, and the percentage who were Hispanic was 37 percent, compared to 22 percent of students in all school districts; (5) In FY 2008, current expenditures per pupil in the 100 largest public school districts ranged from lows of $6,363 in the Granite District, Utah, and $6,734 in the Puerto Rico Department of Education to highs of $23,298 in Boston, Massachusetts, and $22,071 in the New York City Public Schools, New York (table A-14); and (6) Three states--California, Florida, and Texas--accounted for 45 out of the 100 largest public school districts (table D-3). Appendices include: (1) Basic Tables; (2) Methodology; (3) Glossary; and (4) Supplementary Tables. (Contains 25 tables, 1 figure and 16 footnotes.) [To view the 2007-2008 report, see ED511027.].