Table of contents
•	Title page
•	Introduction
•	Acknowledgments
•	National Summary
	State Profiles
	-	Alabama
	-	Alaska
	-	Arizona
	-	Arkansas
	-	California
	-	Colorado
	-	Connecticut
	-	Delaware
	-	District of Columbia
	-	Florida
	-	Georgia
	-	Hawaii
	-	Idaho
	-	Illinois
	-	Indiana
	-	Iowa
	-	Kansas
	-	Kentucky
	-	Louisiana
	-	Maine
	-	Maryland
	-	Massachusetts
	-	Michigan
	-	Minnesota
	-	Mississippi
	-	Missouri
	-	Montana
	-	Nebraska
	-	Nevada
	-	New Hampshire
	-	New Jersey
	-	New Mexico
	-	New York
	-	North Carolina
	-	North Dakota
	-	Ohio
	-	Oklahoma
	-	Oregon
	-	Pennsylvania
	-	Puerto Rico
	-	Rhode Island
	-	South Carolina
	-	South Dakota
	-	Tennessee
	-	Texas
	-	Utah
	-	Vermont
	-	Virginia
	-	Washington
	-	West Virginia
	-	Wisconsin
	-	Wyoming
•	Sources
•	Appendix A
•	Appendix B
•	Appendix C
•	Full report in PDF format (956K)

State Education Indicators With a Focus on Title I

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

Alabama
http://www.alsde.edu/

School and Teacher Demographics
Student Demographics
Statewide Accountability Information
Title I Schools
Assessment Information
Student Achievement 1998-1999
NAEP State Results
Printable version of this profile (PDF format)

School and Teacher Demographics

Number of districts
(CCD, 1998-99)

128

Number of public schools in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
698	235	273	152	6

Student/teacher ratio
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High
16:1	17:1	17:1

Number of FTE teachers in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
21,194	7,723	11,453	5,238	153

Public school enrollment
	1989-90	1998-99
K-8 (CCD)	525,730	530,242
9-12 (CCD)	198,013	205,459
Pre-K (by state definition)	n/a	n/a

Sources of funding
District average
(CCD, 1996-97)

State 62.5%, Local 27.7%, Federal 9.4%, Intermediate 0.5%

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Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity
(CCD, K-12)
	1989-90	1998-99
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	0.7%	0.7%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.5	0.7
Black	35.7	36.2
Hispanic	0.2	0.9
White	62.9	61.5

Students with disabilities
(OSEP, K-12)
1990-91	1998-99
12.1%	11.9%

Limited English proficient
(USED/NCBE, K-12)
1989-90	1996-97
n/a	5,565

Migrant
(OME, K-12)
1993-94	1998-99
6,822	7,757

High school dropout rate
(CCD, event)
1993-94	1997-98
6.2%	4.8%

Postsecondary enrollment
(IPEDS, High school grads enrolled in college)
1994-95	1997-98
64%	68%

All schools by percent of students eligible to participate in the Free Lunch Program*
(CCD, 1998-99)

For 0 to 34%, 564 schools; 35 to 49%, 311 schools; 50 to 74%, 267 schools; and 75 to 100%, 200 schools.

*24 schools did not report.

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Statewide Accountability Information

Statewide Goal for Schools on State Assessment
>50 percent of students at or above 40th percentile on norm-referenced test (NRT) (R, LA, M, S, SSt)

Expected School Improvement on Assessment
Two percent gain per year for schools not attaining Academic Clear. Academic Alert schools are required to improve 5 percent/year.

Indicators for School Accountability
Test scores

Title I Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for Schools
Same as statewide goal

Schools Meeting Title I AYP Goal
786 (96.8%)

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Title I Schools

Title I enrollment
(USED)
	1998-99
K-8	238,633
9-12	23,965
Pre-K	n/a

Race/ethnicity
(USED, K-12)
	Schoolwide	Targeted Assistance
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	2,174	133
Asian/Pacific Islander	921	91
Black	138,667	10,961
Hispanic	2,000	735
White	86,964	22,529

Title I allocation
(Includes Basic, Concentration, and LEA grants, Capital Expenditures, Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected & Delinquent, USED, 1998-99)

$130,984,102

Number of schools with Title I programs
Schoolwide vs. targeted assistance (USED)

In 1996, 154 schools with schoolwide programs and 780 schools with targeted assistance; in 1998, 485 schoolwide, 303 targeted assistance; in 1999, 530 schoolwide, 282 targeted assistance

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Assessment Information

Assessment Reported
Stanford Achievement Test version 9, used since 1996

Progress Toward Assessment Aligned with Standards
Performance standards did not meet review criteria of the U.S. Department of Education.

State Definition of "Proficient" used since 1996
Level III

Definition of Title I Targeted Assistance
All students in Title I schools at tested grade are included in the assessment results.

Exclusion from Assessment
IEP committee decisions, LEP committee decisions, or PEP decisions for 504.

Other Assessments
None.

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Student Achievement 1998-1999

Percentage of students meeting state proficiency levels

Grade 4

Reading/Language Arts
		Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
All Students		18.3%	17.8%	35.9%	28.0%
Title I Schoolwide		24.8	22.0	34.9	18.3
Title I Targeted		15.1	15.9	37.9	31.2
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34	13.5	15.4	37.9	33.2
	75-100	46.9	24.5	23.0	5.6
LEP Students		47.1	29.4	18.6	4.9
Migrant students		18.1	32.6	36.8	12.5

Student achievement trend
Reading 4th grade meets or exceeds Level III

For 1998-99, 63.9% of all students, 71.1% of students at schools with less than 35% of students in poverty, and 28.6% of students at schools with 75% or more in poverty meet or exceed Level III.

Mathematics
		Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
All Students		15.5%	15.3%	38.3%	31.0%
Title I Schoolwide		19.8	18.9	39.2	22.1
Title I Targeted		13.6	13.5	39.0	34.0
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34	12.1	12.8	39.7	35.4
	75-100	36.4	23.0	31.4	9.2
LEP Students		31.4	20.0	35.2	13.3
Migrant students		16.0	22.0	44.7	17.3

Grade 8

Reading/Language Arts
		Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
All Students		17.9%	15.7%	40.0%	26.4%
Title I Schoolwide		25.9	21.8	37.6	14.7
Title I Targeted		21.8	16.0	40.5	21.7
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34	14.6	14.1	43.1	28.3
	75-100	38.2	21.2	26.9	13.7
LEP Students		63.1	14.3	22.6	0.0
Migrant students		22.8	22.0	41.5	13.8

Mathematics
		Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
All Students		20.3%	19.4%	36.3%	24.0%
Title I Schoolwide		28.6	23.5	35.1	12.9
Title I Targeted		22.6	22.1	35.6	19.7
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34	18.0	19.3	38.0	24.7
	75-100	42.8	24.8	21.9	10.5
LEP Students		36.1	33.7	22.9	7.2
Migrant students		31.4	22.0	35.6	11.0

Student achievement trend
Math 8th grade meets or exceeds Level III

For 1998-99, 60.3% of all students, 62.7% of students at schools with less than 35% of students in poverty, and 32.4% of students at schools with 75% or more in poverty meet or exceed Level III.

Grade 10

Reading/Language Arts
	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
All Students	31.3%	18.6%	33.0%	17.2%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

Mathematics
	Level I	Level II	Level III	Level IV
All Students	19.4%	23.3%	38.4%	18.8%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

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NAEP State Results
	Grade 4	Grade 8
Reading, 1998:
Proficient level and above	24%	21%
Basic level and above	56%	66%
Math, 2000:
Proficient level and above	14%	16%
Basic level and above	57%	52%