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

Arkansas
http://arkedu.state.ar.us

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)

311

Number of public schools in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
574	180	325	3	24

Student/teacher ratio
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High
20:1	23:1	24:1

Number of FTE teachers in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
11,014	3,840	5,406	35	655

Public school enrollment
	1989-90	1998-99
K-8 (CCD)	311,060	316,637
9-12 (CCD)	123,900	132,507
Pre-K (by state definition)	n/a	1,390

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

State 57.7%, Local 31.4%, Federal 10.8%, Intermediate 0.1%

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Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity
(CCD, K-12)
	1989-90	1998-99
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	0.2%	0.4%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0.6	0.8
Black	24.0	23.5
Hispanic	0.4	2.5
White	74.8	72.8

Students with disabilities
(OSEP, K-12)
1990-91	1998-99
9.7%	11.0%

Limited English proficient
(USED/NCBE, K-12)
1989-90	1996-97
n/a	5,282

Migrant
(OME, K-12)
1993-94	1998-99
11,344	15,047

High school dropout rate
(CCD, event)
1993-94	1997-98
4.9%	5.4%

Postsecondary enrollment
(IPEDS, High school grads enrolled in college)
1994-95	1997-98
48%	54%

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

For 0 to 34%, 458 schools; 35 to 49%, 320 schools; 50 to 74%, 238 schools; and 75 to 100%, 89 schools.

*One school did not report

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Statewide Accountability Information

Statewide Goal for Schools on State Assessment
(Developing by 2001-02) 100% students proficient in 10 years.
Rewards & sanctions.

Expected School Improvement on Assessment
Yearly progress to meet 100% in 10 years.

Indicators for School Accountability
CRT scores

Title I Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Target for Schools
Transition (same as statewide 2001-02)

Schools Meeting Title I AYP Goal
284 (36.3%)

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Title I Schools

Title I enrollment
(USED)
	1998-99
K-8	147,129
9-12	13,979
Pre-K	n/a

Race/ethnicity
(USED, K-12)
	Schoolwide	Targeted Assistance
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	425	133
Asian/Pacific Islander	972	135
Black	51,475	9,330
Hispanic	4,229	1,701
White	67,234	29,026

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

$81,111,433

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

In 1996, 71 schools with schoolwide programs and 841 schools with targeted assistance; in 1998, 358 schoolwide, 431 targeted assistance; in 1999, 381 schoolwide, 402 targeted assistance

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Assessment Information

Assessment Reported
Stanford Achievement Test, Version 9

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

State Definition of "Proficient"
Student results are placed in quartiles, there is no definition of proficient

Exclusion from Assessment
No information provided

Other Assessments
No information provided

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Student Achievement 1998-1999

Percentage of students meeting state proficiency levels

Grade 5

Reading/LanguageArts
		Bottom	Lower Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students		27.8%	24.4%	23.9%	23.9%
Title I Schoolwide		35.6	24.9	21.1	18.3
Title I Targeted		25.8	24.3	24.7	25.1
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Mathematics
		Bottom	Lower Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students		30.4%	26.4%	24.5%	18.7%
Title I Schoolwide		37.6	26.6	21.4	14.5
Title I Targeted		28.2	26.3	25.6	20.0
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Grade 7

Reading/LanguageArts
		Bottom	Lower Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students		28.8%	25.9%	23.1%	22.1%
Title I Schoolwide		40.3	26.4	19.6	13.7
Title I Targeted		29.1	26.7	23.3	21.0
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Mathematics
		Bottom	Lower Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students		30.5%	25.0%	23.8%	20.7%
Title I Schoolwide		38.5	25.5	20.9	15.1
Title I Targeted		28.7	25.7	24.4	21.3
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students
Migrant students

Grade 10

Reading
	Bottom	Lower Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students	28.7%	27.6%	25.4%	18.3%
Title I Schoolwide	38.5	28.1	20.4	13.0
Title I Targeted	34.2	27.4	23.4	15.0

Mathematics
	Bottom	Lower Middle	Upper Middle	Top
All Students	17.6%	28.3%	34.6%	19.5%
Title I Schoolwide	23.6	32.6	30.7	13.0
Title I Targeted	21.0	30.2	31.8	16.9

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NAEP State Results
	Grade 4	Grade 8
Reading, 1998:
Proficient level and above	23%	23%
Basic level and above	55%	68%
Math, 2000:
Proficient level and above	14%	14%
Basic level and above	57%	52%