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

California
http://goldmine.cde.ca.gov/

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)

1,002

Number of public schools in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
5,259	1,227	1,542	296	10

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
151,944	45,680	65,455	8,834	276

Public school enrollment
	1989-90	1998-99
K-8 (CCD)	3,470,198	4,125,962
9-12 (CCD)	1,301,780	1,627,708
Pre-K (by state definition)	n/a	n/a

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

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Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity
(CCD, K-12)
	1989-90	1998-99
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	0.8%	0.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander	10.4	11.1
Black	8.7	8.7
Hispanic	33.0	41.4
White	47.1	37.9

Students with disabilities
(OSEP, K-12)
1990-91	1998-99
8.4%	9.5%

Limited English proficient
(USED/NCBE, K-12)
1989-90	1996-97
861,531	1,381,393

Migrant
(OME, K-12)
1993-94	1998-99
197,806	220,860

High school dropout rate
(CCD, event)
1993-94	1997-98
4.4%	n/a

Postsecondary enrollment
(IPEDS, High school grads enrolled in college)
1994-95	1997-98
61%	70%

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

For 0 to 34%, 4,029 schools; 35 to 49%, 1,267 schools; 50 to 74%, 1,828 schools; and 75 to 100%, 1,174 schools.

*36 schools did not report.

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Statewide Accountability Information

Statewide Goal for Schools on State Assessment
Academic performance index (weighted subject scores) measure gains with comparable schools

Expected School Improvement on Assessment
Five percent gain on annual growth target by school bands

Indicators for School Accountability
Index: NRT scores other test scores, attendance, graduation, sub-groups scores

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

Schools Meeting Title I AYP Goal
3,577 (78.7%)

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Title I Schools

Title I enrollment
(USED)
	1998-99
K-8	1,846,475
9-12	302,535
Pre-K	n/a

Race/ethnicity
(USED, K-12)
	Schoolwide	Targeted Assistance
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	10,384	14,496
Asian/Pacific Islander	62,758	109,861
Black	115,189	213,703
Hispanic	629,090	753,911
White	78,136	326,338

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

$940,953,029

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

In 1996, 574 schools with schoolwide programs and 3,920 schools with targeted assistance; in 1998, 1,150 schoolwide, 3,509 targeted assistance; in 1999, 988 schoolwide, 3,555 targeted assistance

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Assessment Information

Assessment Reported
Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth Edition, Form T, used since 1997-1998(NPR=National Percentile Rank)

Progress Toward Assessment Aligned with Standards
California has been granted a waiver of the deadline for having performance standards in place. California has adopted content standards in reading/language arts, mathematics, science, and history/social science. Performance standards will be adopted in 1999 and 2000.

State Definition of "Proficient"
Percentile; no levels

Exclusion from Assessment
Exempted IEPs and students with written requests from parents

Other Assessments
No information provided

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Student Achievement 1998-1999

Percentage of students meeting state proficiency levels

Grade 4

Reading/LanguageArts
		NPR for Average
All Students		42%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		17
Migrant students

Mathematics
		NPR for Average
All Students		44%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		25
Migrant students

Grade 8

Reading/LanguageArts
		NPR for Average
All Students		46%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		17
Migrant students

Mathematics
		NPR for Average
All Students		48%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		25
Migrant students

Grade 10

Reading
		NPR for Average
All Students		32%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

Mathematics
		NPR for Average
All Students		45%
Title I Schoolwide
Title I Targeted

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NAEP State Results
	Grade 4	Grade 8
Reading, 1998:
Proficient level and above	20%	22%
Basic level and above	58%	64%
Math, 2000:
Proficient level and above	15%	18%
Basic level and above	53%	52%