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

Pennsylvania
http://www.pde.state.pa.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)

501

Number of public schools in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
1,932	545	599	26	37

Student/teacher ratio
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High
18:1	17:1	16:1

Number of FTE teachers in state
(CCD, 1998-99)
Elementary	Middle	High	Combined	Other
47,238	22,206	33,102	648	1,008

Public school enrollment
	1989-90	1998-99
K-8 (CCD)	1,147,986	1,248,438
9-12 (CCD)	507,293	535,400
Pre-K (by state definition)	n/a	2,712

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

State 38.7%, Local 55.4%, Federal 5.9%, Intermediate 0.1%

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Student Demographics

Race/ethnicity
(CCD, K-12)
	1989-90	1998-99
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	0.1%	0.1%
Asian/Pacific Islander	1.5	1.9
Black	13.1	14.6
Hispanic	2.6	4.0
White	82.7	79.4

Students with disabilities
(OSEP, K-12)
1990-91	1998-99
11.6%	10.0%

Limited English proficient
(USED/NCBE, K-12)
1989-90	1996-97
52,379	100,780

Migrant
(OME, K-12)
1993-94	1998-99
8,424	13,248

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

Postsecondary enrollment
(IPEDS, High school grads enrolled in college)
1994-95	1997-98
57%	65%

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

Data not available

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Statewide Accountability Information

Statewide Goal for Schools on State Assessment
Public reporting test scores and school profiles

Expected School Improvement on Assessment
Rewards = Increase 50 points on CRT (PSSA)

Indicators for School Accountability
CRT (PSSA), graduation, attendance

Title I Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for Schools
Move 5 percent of students up one level in reading, math

Schools Meeting Title I AYP Goal
1,516 (87.6%)

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Title I Schools

Title I enrollment
(USED)
	1998-99
K-8	307,114
9-12	27,989
Pre-K	n/a

Race/ethnicity
(USED, K-12)
	Schoolwide	Targeted Assistance
American Indian/Alaskan Natives	230	70
Asian/Pacific Islander	6,569	897
Black	132,547	11,756
Hispanic	34,850	5,312
White	52,379	100,780

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

$348,361,624

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

In 1996, 136 schools with schoolwide programs and 2,106 schools with targeted assistance; in 1998, 361 schoolwide, 1,373 targeted assistance; in 1999, 391 schoolwide, 1,340 targeted assistance

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Assessment Information

Assessment Reported
Pennsylvania System of Student Assessments, used since 1996

Progress Toward Assessment Aligned with Standards
Performance standards met 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
IEP exclusions, parental exclusions for grade 11, and incomplete assessments

Other Assessments
Writing examination at grades 6 and 9 will become mandatory in 2000.

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Student Achievement 1998-1999

Percentage of students meeting state proficiency levels

Grade 5

Reading/Language Arts
		Bottom	Low Middle	High Middle	Top
All Students		23.2%	23.6%	26.0%	27.1%
Title I Schoolwide		50.7	29.7	14.0	5.6
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		71.6	19.2	7.1	2.1
Migrant students		60.3	24.8	12.4	2.6

Mathematics
		Bottom	Low Middle	High Middle	Top
All Students		23.1%	28.5%	26.2%	22.1%
Title I Schoolwide		49.8	33.3	12.9	4.0
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		59.9	24.2	11.6	4.3
Migrant students		53.0	32.6	11.4	3.0

Grade 8

Reading/Language Arts
		Bottom	Low Middle	High Middle	Top
All Students		24.1%	24.1%	25.6%	26.1%
Title I Schoolwide		57.1	26.6	11.5	4.8
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		81.7	13.8	3.7	0.9
Migrant students		63.4	25.4	8.2	3.0

Mathematics
		Bottom	Low Middle	High Middle	Top
All Students		23.3%	28.3%	26.4%	22.0%
Title I Schoolwide		59.8	27.6	9.2	3.4
Title I Targeted
Percent of School in Poverty
	00-34
	75-100
LEP Students		73.5	15.9	7.3	3.3
Migrant students		60.4	25.0	11.8	2.8

Grade 11

Reading
	Bottom	Low Middle	High Middle	Top
All Students	24.8%	24.5%	26.5%	24.1%
Title I Schoolwide	72.7	19.8	6.1	1.4
Title I Targeted

Mathematics
	Bottom	Low Middle	High Middle	Top
All Students	26.1%	26.6%	26.3%	20.9%
Title I Schoolwide	73.6	19.9	5.8	0.9
Title I Targeted

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NAEP State Results
	Grade 4	Grade 8
Reading, 1998:
Proficient level and above	n/a	n/a
Basic level and above	n/a	n/a
Math, 2000:
Proficient level and above	n/a	n/a
Basic level and above	n/a	n/a